Genus Praesagus Ponomarenko, 1969 (Schizophoridae): atlas of extinct beetle taxa

Род Praesagus Ponomarenko, 1969 (type species: Praesagus capitatus Ponomarenko, 1969, by original designation)

Composition:

+ Praesagus capitatus Ponomarenko, 1969 (Upper or Middle Trias)

Praesagus capitatus Ponomarenko, 1969, holotype («2240/272», collection PIN); Body, from above; Trias, Kyrgyzstan, Оshskаya Reg., Маdygеn (Dzаylayauchо). Photo by authors, made with the assistance of A. Mazin (PIN).

Praesagus capitatus Ponomarenko, 1969, holotype («2240/272», collection PIN); body, from below; Trias, Kyrgyzstan, Оshskаya Reg., Маdygеn (Dzаylayauchо). Photo by authors, made with the assistance of A. Mazin (PIN).

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Literature:

(Look also at the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Cupedina, Carabina и Scarabaeina (1 part) and table Distribution of families of Coleoptera in the fossil record)

Пономаренко А.Г. 1969. Историческое развитие жесткокрылых-архостемат. (Труды Палеонтологического института АH СССР. 125) Москва. Наука. 1-239.

Пономаренко А.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1980. Надотряд Scarabaeidea. Жесткокрылообразные. (Труды Палеонтологического института АH СССР. 175) Москва, Наука. 75-84.

Crowson R.A. 1975. The evolutionary history of Coleoptera as documented by fossil and comparative evidence. Atti Congr. naz. Ital. Entomol. 10th. Sassari 1974. 47-90.

Crowson R.A. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.

Kirejtshuk A.G., 1991/1992. Evolution of mode of life as the basis for division of the beetles into groups of high taxonomic rank. M. Zunino, X. Belles, M. Blas, eds. Advances in Coleopterology. Baecelona, Ass. Europ. Coleopt. P. 249-261.

Ponomarenko A.G. 2002. 2.2.1.3.2 Superorder Scarabaeidea Laicharting, 1781, Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. History of insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 164-180.