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
Belongs to Pseudocardiophorites according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Dolin 1976 and Kundrata et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Pseudocardiophorites angustatus, Pseudocardiophorites hayeki, Pseudocardiophorites infractus, Pseudocardiophorites quadricollis
Type specimen: PIN 2554/688, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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