Psacodromeus gutta 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 Psacodromeus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and J. Ansorge 2022

See also Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: Psacodromeus crassus, Psacodromeus minor, Psacodromeus ovalis, Psacodromeus rugosus

Type specimen: PIN 2554/456, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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