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Paratrox medvedevi

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Extinct species of beetle

Paratrox medvedevi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Trogidae
Subfamily: Troginae
Genus: Paratrox
Species: Paratrox medvedevi
Nikolajev, 2009

Paratrox medvedevi is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia around 125 to 113 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous. P. medvedevi is the only species of the genus Paratrox.

References

  1. Nikolajev, G. V. (January 2009). "A new genus and species of the family Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 5 (2): 179–182. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2009-5-2-179-182.
  2. "Paratrox". BioLib.
Taxon identifiers
Paratrox medvedevi


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