Cretotortor

Cretotortor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Gyrinidae
Subfamily: Heterogyrinae
Genus: †
Ponomarenko, 1973

Cretotortor is an extinct genus of fossil beetles in the family Gyrinidae, containing the following species:[1]

  • Cretotortor archarensis Ponomarenko, 1977 Darmakan Formation, Russia, Paleocene (Danian)
  • Cretotortor zherichini Ponomarenko, 1973 Kzyl-Zhar, Kazakhstan, Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

References

  1. ^ Gyrinidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 9 May 2012.


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