Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Full reference: S. Chen and C. C. Tan. 1973. A new family of Coleoptera from the Lower Cretaceous of Kansu. Acta Entomologica Sinica 16:169-179
Belongs to Umenocoleus according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022
See also Beutel et al. 2020, Chen and Tan 1973, Lin 1982, Luo et al. 2022 and Vršanský 2003
Sister taxa: Umenocoleus minimus, Umenocoleus nervosus
Type specimen: NIGPAS N23, F4704101, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Huitongbao, Yumen City, which is in an Albian/Albian lacustrine - large shale in the Zhonggou Formation of China.
Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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