Menopraesagus oryziformis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Schizophoroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Myxophaga Superfamilia: †Schizophoroidea

Familia: †Schizophoridae
Genus: †Menopraesagus
Species: Menopraesagus oryziformis

Name

Menopraesagus oryziformis Tan, Ren, Shih & Yang, 2012: 4, fig. 1

Holotype: CNU-C-NN2010801, an almost complete adult body with elytra. Paratype: CNU-CNN2010802, a specimen preserved with elytra and part of pronotum.

Type locality: Jiulongshan Formation, Middle Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian boundary); Daohugou Village, Shantou Township, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China.

References

Tan, Jingjing, Dong Ren, Chung K. Shih & Xingke Yang., 2012: New schizophorid fossils from China and possible evolutionary scenarios for Jurassic archostematan beetles. Journal of systematic palaeontology: 11(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2011.637515 .

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