Cretotaenia pallida 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

Belongs to Cretotaenia according to M. Fikáček et al. 2012

See also Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 1989/2890, a nymph (entire late-instar larva). Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 1989)

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