†Aphytocerus communis Zherikhin 1977 (beetle)
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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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