Tomiaplus minimus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Adephaga

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: †Triaplidae
Genus: †Tomiaplus
Species: †Tomiaplus minimus

Name

Tomiaplus minimus Ponomarenko, 2021

Holotype: PIN, no. 4887/704; incomplete part and counterpart, distorted imprints of a beetle lacking the head and most of the pronotum, without antennae or fore limbs; due to burial in an inclined position, the sides of the specimen are asymmetrical, the right elytron is a quarter wider than the left.

Type locality: Kemerovo Region, Novokuznetsk District, right bank of the Tom River, 10 km downstream of the village of Ust-Naryk, Babiy Kamen locality; Maltsevo Formation, Kedrovka Beds.

References

Primary references

• Ponomarenko, A.G. 2021. [Permian Triaplids (Coleoptera, Triaplidae), Yet Another Group of Mesozoic Beetles from the Terminal Permian]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2021(6): 63–75. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 55(6): 650–661. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030121050130 .] PDF. Reference page.