Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 1995. New taxa of metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from the Mesozoic of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 30:310-317
Belongs to Metabuprestium according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Alexeev 1995
Sister taxa: Metabuprestium arkagalense, Metabuprestium arkharense, Metabuprestium bayssense, Metabuprestium bontsaganense, Metabuprestium cretaceum, Metabuprestium cuneomaculatum, Metabuprestium dundulense, Metabuprestium furcatorugosum, Metabuprestium granulipenne, Metabuprestium ichbogdoense, Metabuprestium latipenne, Metabuprestium minutum, Metabuprestium nobile, Metabuprestium ovale, Metabuprestium oyunchaiense, Metabuprestium sibiricum, Metabuprestium ustkivdense, Metabuprestium vitimense
Type specimen: PIN 4271/243, an elytra. Its type locality is Shar-Tolgoy (PIN collection 4271), which is in an Aptian lacustrine marl in the Shar-Tolgoy Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mongolia (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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