†Thoracotes dubius Handlirsch 1906 (bark gnawing beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640
Belongs to Thoracotes according to J. Kolibáč 2013
See also Handlirsch 1906 and Schmied et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Thoracotes glaberus, Thoracotes glabrus, Thoracotes sibiricus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection)
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