Aposphinctus sibiricus Ponomarenko 1990 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1990. Beetles, Scarabaeida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 239:39-82

Belongs to Aposphinctus according to A. G. Ponomarenko 1990

Sister taxa: Aposphinctus conservatus, Aposphinctus striatus

Type specimen: PIN 3924/35, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shiviya locality (PIN collection 3924), which is in a Hauterivian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Daya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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