†Placonotus sepulvedae Gomes and Souza 2022 (beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Laemophloeidae
Full reference: L. R. P. Gomes and D. S. Souza. 2022. A new fossil of Laemophloeidae Ganglbauer (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Miocene amber of Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico. Historical Biology 35:2319-2322
Belongs to Placonotus according to L. R. P. Gomes and D. S. Souza 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: DZUP Mex-004, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mexican amber (DZUP Coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Mexican amber (DZUP Coll)
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