Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: V. G. Dolin and A. Nel. 2002. Trois nouveaux Elateridae fossiles du Mésozoïque supérieur de Chine (Coleoptera). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 107:341-346

Belongs to Cryptocoelus according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Dolin and Nel 2002 and Muona et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Cryptocoelus baissensis, Cryptocoelus buffoni, Cryptocoelus dolini, Cryptocoelus gianteus, Cryptocoelus lukashevichae, Cryptocoelus minimus, Cryptocoelus shcherbakovi, Cryptocoelus sinitshenkovae

Type specimen: MNHN-LP-R.55226, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Chaomidian Village (MNHN coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large shale in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Chaomidian Village (MNHN coll)

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