Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko, R. A. Coram, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2005. New beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Berriasian Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, UK. Cretaceous Research 26:277-281

Belongs to Palaeodytes according to A. G. Ponomarenko et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Palaeodytes baissiensis, Palaeodytes gutta, Palaeodytes sibiricus

Type specimen: MNEMG 2003.18, an exoskeleton (lacking head, prothorax, and legs). Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (MNEMG collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (MNEMG collection)

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