†Nganasania khetica Zherikhin 1977 (silken fungus beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
Full reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1977. Infraorder Elateriformia, Cucujiformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:130-142
Belongs to Nganasania according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky 2017
See also Zherikhin 1977
Sister taxon: Nganasania taymyrica
Type specimen: PIN 3311/45, 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: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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