Insecta - Coleoptera - Mesocinetidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. G. Ponomarenko. 2010. A new coleopterous family Mesocinetidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) from Late Mesozoic and notes on fossil remains from Shar-Teg (Upper Jurassic, South-Western Mongolia). Zoosystematica Rossica 19:301-325
Belongs to Mesocinetus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. G. Ponomarenko 2010
Sister taxa: Mesocinetus aequalis, Mesocinetus angustitibialis, Mesocinetus elumbis, Mesocinetus mongolicus, Mesocinetus ovatus
Type specimen: PIN 4270/1075, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shar-Teg, outcrop 443/1 (PIN collection 4270), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Sharteg Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Shar-Teg, outcrop 443/1 (PIN collection 4270)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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