†Nganasania taymyrica Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2014 (silken fungus beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
Full reference: G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky. 2014. New species of the genus Nganasania from Upper Cretaceous of Taymyr (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae). Russian Entomological Journal 23:191-194
Belongs to Nganasania according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky 2014
Sister taxon: Nganasania khetica
Type specimen: PIN 3311/711-716, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
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