Cretohybosorus buryaticus Nikolajev 1999 (scavenger scarab beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hybosoridae

Full reference: G. V. Nikolajev. 1999. Materialy k sistematike plastinchatousykh zhukov podsemeistva Hybosorinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) s vydeleniem novoi triby dlya chetyrekh monotipichnykh podov iz Yuzhnoi Ameriki i opistniem novykh taksonov iz nizhnego mela Zabaikal’ya. Tethys Entomological Research 1:173-182

Belongs to Cretohybosorus according to Y. Y. Lu et al. 2018

See also Nikolajev 1999 and Nikolajev 2007

Sister taxon: Cretohybosorus striatulus

Type specimen: PIN 3064/7459, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064, bed 31), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl/siltstone in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 3064, bed 31)

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