Liassodites obsti Kirejtshuk and Ansorge 2022 (false ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trachypachidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and J. Ansorge. 2022. An extraordinarily preserved new genus and species of Trachypachidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga) from the Early Jurassic of Germany and a review of fossil trachypachid genera. Historical Biology 35:958-975

Belongs to Liassodites according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and J. Ansorge 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LGA2850, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Klein Lehmhagen pit, Grimmen (LGA collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore shale in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Klein Lehmhagen pit, Grimmen (LGA collection)

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