New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae

Two new genera and species of Elateridae, Megalithomerus magohalmii gen. et sp. nov. and Koreagrypnus jinju gen. et sp. nov., are described based on two pairs of fossils from the late Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation in Jinju City, South Korea. Both Megalithomerus and Koreagrypnus represent the youn...

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Autores principales: Sohn, Jae-Cheon, Nam, Gi Soo, Choi, Sei-Woong, Ren, Dong
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31826006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225502
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author Sohn, Jae-Cheon
Nam, Gi Soo
Choi, Sei-Woong
Ren, Dong
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description Two new genera and species of Elateridae, Megalithomerus magohalmii gen. et sp. nov. and Koreagrypnus jinju gen. et sp. nov., are described based on two pairs of fossils from the late Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation in Jinju City, South Korea. Both Megalithomerus and Koreagrypnus represent the youngest occurrences of an extinct elaterid subfamily, Protagrypninae. Megalithomerus magohalmii is the largest known fossil elaterid. These newly described elaterids provide a better understanding of the morphological diversity and occurrence of Protagrypninae through geologic time.
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spelling pubmed-69055142019-12-27 New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae Sohn, Jae-Cheon Nam, Gi Soo Choi, Sei-Woong Ren, Dong PLoS One Research Article Two new genera and species of Elateridae, Megalithomerus magohalmii gen. et sp. nov. and Koreagrypnus jinju gen. et sp. nov., are described based on two pairs of fossils from the late Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation in Jinju City, South Korea. Both Megalithomerus and Koreagrypnus represent the youngest occurrences of an extinct elaterid subfamily, Protagrypninae. Megalithomerus magohalmii is the largest known fossil elaterid. These newly described elaterids provide a better understanding of the morphological diversity and occurrence of Protagrypninae through geologic time. Public Library of Science 2019-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6905514/ /pubmed/31826006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225502 Text en © 2019 Sohn et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sohn, Jae-Cheon
Nam, Gi Soo
Choi, Sei-Woong
Ren, Dong
New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae
title New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae
title_full New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae
title_fullStr New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae
title_full_unstemmed New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae
title_short New fossils of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation (South Korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct Protagrypninae
title_sort new fossils of elateridae (insecta, coleoptera) from early cretaceous jinju formation (south korea) with their implications to evolutionary diversity of extinct protagrypninae
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31826006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225502
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