Cretotaenia Ponomarenko 1977 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

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

Parent taxon: Hydrophiloidea according to M. Fikáček et al. 2012

See also Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: Epimetopidae, Georissidae, Helophoridae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydrophilopsia, Laetopsia, Sinosperchopsis, Spercheidae

Subtaxa: Cretotaenia pallida

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 1989) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

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