ammonites
Paleas maculipennis Alekseev 1993 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: A. V. Alekseev. 1993. Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from Eurasia . Paleontological Journal 27(1A):9-34

Belongs to Paleas according to A. V. Alekseev 1993

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3559/5767, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

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Average measurements (in mm): body 10.0 x 4.2, elytron length 7.30