2008/06/06 by Huali Chang, Fan Zhang, Dong Ren · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Fossil Insects in Amber #Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
paper · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1785.1.3
openalex publication_date 2008/06/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
A new genus and two new species of fossil Elateridae are described and illustrated: Paralithomerus gen. nov., P. exquisitus sp. nov, and P. parallelus sp. nov. Both species were collected from the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Fossil elaterids expressing a sutured mesoventrite have been otherwise discovered only from the Upper Jurassic strata of Karatau.