A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China

Abstract. Cretorabus rasnitsyni sp. n., belonging to the extinct subfamily Protorabinae of Carabidae, was described based on a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Yangshuwanzi, Inner Mongolia. The diagnostic characters forCretorabus are revised, and the key to speci...

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Autores principales: Wang, Bo, Zhang, Haichun
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22259279
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1300
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description Abstract. Cretorabus rasnitsyni sp. n., belonging to the extinct subfamily Protorabinae of Carabidae, was described based on a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Yangshuwanzi, Inner Mongolia. The diagnostic characters forCretorabus are revised, and the key to species of the genus was presented. The fossil record of Protorabinae was summarized. Sinocarabus Hong, 1982 and Obesofemoria Hong, 1982 cannot be attributed to Protorabinae.
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spelling pubmed-32607622012-01-18 A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China Wang, Bo Zhang, Haichun Zookeys Article Abstract. Cretorabus rasnitsyni sp. n., belonging to the extinct subfamily Protorabinae of Carabidae, was described based on a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Yangshuwanzi, Inner Mongolia. The diagnostic characters forCretorabus are revised, and the key to species of the genus was presented. The fossil record of Protorabinae was summarized. Sinocarabus Hong, 1982 and Obesofemoria Hong, 1982 cannot be attributed to Protorabinae. Pensoft Publishers 2011-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3260762/ /pubmed/22259279 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1300 Text en Bo Wang, Haichun Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China
title A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China
title_full A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China
title_fullStr A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China
title_full_unstemmed A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China
title_short A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China
title_sort new ground beetle (carabidae, protorabinae) from the lower cretaceous of inner mongolia, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22259279
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1300
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