Thoracotes glabrus Ponomarenko 1990 (bark gnawing beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

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 Thoracotes according to J. Kolibáč 2013

See also Ponomarenko 1990

Sister taxa: Thoracotes dubius, Thoracotes glaberus, Thoracotes sibiricus

Type specimen: PIN 3063/734, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daya locality (PIN collection 3063), which is in a Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Glushkovo Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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