Ceafornotensis archratiras Woolley 2016 (scarab beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Full reference: C. Woolley. 2016. The first scarabaeid beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae) described from the Mesozoic (Late-Cretaceous) of Africa. African Invertebrates 57:53-66

Belongs to Ceafornotensis according to J. C. Neita-Moreno et al. 2019

See also Woolley 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BP/2/18654, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Orapa (Bernard Price Institute)

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