†Mesorabus elongatus Ponomarenko 1977 (ground beetle)
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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 Mesorabus according to A. G. Ponomarenko 1977
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 2784/1525, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2784), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2784)
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