Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: H. L. Chang, M. Nabozhenko, H. Y. Pu, L. Xu, S. H. Jia and T. R. Li. 2016. First record of fossil comb-clawed beetles of the tribe Cteniopodini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Jehol Biota (Yixian formation of China), Lower Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research 57:289-293

Belongs to Platycteniopus according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021

See also Batelka et al. 2018, Chang et al. 2016 and Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Henan Geological Museum 41HII0137, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Huangbanjigou, bed 2, Chaomidian Village (Henan Museum collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Huangbanjigou, bed 2, Chaomidian Village (Henan Museum collection)

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