Aphytocerus communis Zherikhin 1977 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cerophytidae

Full reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1977. Infraorder Elateriformia, Cucujiformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:130-142

Belongs to Aphytocerus according to Y. L. Yu et al. 2019

See also Zherikhin 1977

Sister taxon: Aphytocerus dolganicus

Type specimen: PIN 3311/41, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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