Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
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 Cretorabus according to A. G. Ponomarenko et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Cretarabus medius, Cretorabus capitatus, Cretorabus latus, Cretorabus orientalis, Cretorabus ovalis, Cretorabus rasnitsyni
Type specimen: BMB 019612, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Hard Cockle Beds, Swanage (BMB collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Hard Cockle Beds, Swanage (BMB collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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