Platycoxa jurassica Ponomarenko 1977 (false ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trachypachidae

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Suborder Adephaga, Polyphaga Incertae Sedis, Infraorder Staphyliniformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:17-119

Belongs to Platycoxa according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and J. Ansorge 2022

See also Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxon: Platycoxa armata

Type specimen: PIN 2496/6, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Kenderlyk, Akkolka River (PIN collection 2496), which is in a Norian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Tologoi Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Kenderlyk, Akkolka River (PIN collection 2496)

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