Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Full reference: V. G. Dolin. 1976. Fossil click beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) of the subfamilies Negastriinae and Cardophorinae from Upper Jurassic of Karatau. Vestnik Zoologii 1976(2):68-75
Parent taxon: Elateridae according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Dolin 1976, Dolin 1980, Douglas 2011 and Kundrata et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acmaeodera burmitina, Adocetus, Agrypninae, Artinama, Bilineariselater, Cardiophorinae, Cebrioninae, Cretocardiophorus, Cretoelaterium, Cryptagriotes, Cryptocoelus, Dendrometrinae, Denticollinae, Elater maculatus, Elateridium, Elaterinae, Elaterites, Elaterium, Gripecolous, Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Ludiophanes, Mercata, Mionelater, Negastriinae, Omalisinae, Ovivagina, Paralithomerus, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Protagrypninae, Pseudocardiophorites, Silicernius, Sinoelaterium, Spheniscosomus, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae, Tetraraphes, Thylacosterninae, Turonelater
Subtaxa: Protocardiophorus ancestralis Protocardiophorus jurassicus
Type: Protocardiophorus ancestralis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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