Cordorabus minimus Ponomarenko 1977 (ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

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 Cordorabus according to A. G. Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: Cordorabus antennatus, Cordorabus notatus, Cordorabus striatus, Cordorabus vittatus, Cordorabus wuqiensis

Type specimen: PIN 2239/905, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2239), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2239)

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