†Tunguskagyrus Yan et al. 2018 (whirligig beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Gyrinidae
Full reference: E. V. Yan, R. G. Beutel, and J. F. Lawrence. 2018. Whirling in the late Permian: ancestral Gyrinidae show early radiation of beetles before Permian-Triassic mass extinction. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(33):1-10
Parent taxon: Gyrinidae according to R. G. Beutel et al. 2024
See also Beutel et al. 2019, Kirejtshuk and Prokin 2018, Ponomarenko 2021 and Yan et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Anagyrinus, Coptogyrinus, Gyrininae, Gyrinopsis, Protogyrininus, Spanglerogyrinae
Subtaxa: Tunguskagyrus planus Tunguskagyrus yani
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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