Carabites vitimensis 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 Carabites according to A. G. Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: Carabites anthracinus, Carabites arapahoensis, Carabites capellinii, Carabites creta, Carabites cuneatus, Carabites dubius, Carabites ellipticus, Carabites eocenicus, Carabites exanimus, Carabites exilis, Carabites feildenianus, Carabites gardneri, Carabites geinitzi, Carabites harringtoni, Carabites islandicus, Carabites kincaidi, Carabites laesicollis, Carabites parallelus, Carabites peracutus, Carabites rugosus, Carabites russelli, Carabites schueli, Carabites scoticus

Type specimen: PIN 3064/871, an exoskeleton (without head, prothorax, and legs). Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 3064)

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