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Fossil genus of beetles in the family Carabidae

Cretoloricera
Temporal range: Early/Lower Cenomanian Preκž’ κž’ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Cretoloricera
H. Liu, K. V. Makarov, and C. H. Luo, 2023
Species: C. electra
Binomial name
Cretoloricera electra
H. Liu, K. V. Makarov, and C. H. Luo, 2023

Cretoloricera is a genus of ground beetles (Carabidae) that lived during the Middle Cretaceous period. The genus currently only has one known species which is Cretoloricera electra, found in Kachin amber, dated to the mid-Cretaceous. The genus morphology has a strong and robust maxilla and a highly modified galea. It had a nasal with prominent teeth and lack lacinia.

References

  1. "Cretoloricera electra". PaleoDB.
  2. Liu, Hua; Makarov, Kirill V.; Jarzembowski, Edmund A.; Xiao, Chuantao; Luo, Cihang (2023-08-01). "Cretoloricera electra gen. et sp. nov., the oldest record of Loricerini (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Carabidae: Loricerinae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber". Cretaceous Research. 148: 105540. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105540. ISSN 0195-6671.
Taxon identifiers
Cretoloricera
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