Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 1995. New taxa of metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from the Mesozoic of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 30:310-317

Belongs to Metabuprestium according to A. V. Alexeev 1995

Sister taxa: Metabuprestium arkharense, Metabuprestium bayssense, Metabuprestium bontsaganense, Metabuprestium cretaceum, Metabuprestium cuneomaculatum, Metabuprestium dundulense, Metabuprestium furcatorugosum, Metabuprestium granulipenne, Metabuprestium latipenne, Metabuprestium minutum, Metabuprestium nobile, Metabuprestium ovale, Metabuprestium oyunchaiense, Metabuprestium ustkivdense, Metabuprestium vitimense

Type specimen: PIN 4271/243, an elytra. Its type locality is Shar-Tolgoy, which is in an Aptian lacustrine marl in the Shar-Tolgoy Formation of Mongolia.

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Average measurements (in mm): elytron 10.9 x 2.7