†Sinoelaterium melanocolor Ping 1928 (click beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Full reference: C. Ping. 1928. Study of the Cretaceous fossil insects of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 13:5-57
Belongs to Sinoelaterium according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Kundrata et al. 2020 and Ping 1928
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Cat. No. 2132, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Locality 228, Peipiao, Jehol, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large shale in the Yixian Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Locality 228, Peipiao, Jehol
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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