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Issue: Vol. 6 No. 5: October 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-30
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.5.8
Page range: 496–506
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Cretaceous beetles of the Jinju Formation (Coleoptera): Archostemata

Department of Science Education, Gongju National University of Education, 27 Ungjin-ro, Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam-do 32553, Republic of Korea
Department of Science Education, Gongju National University of Education, 27 Ungjin-ro, Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam-do 32553, Republic of Korea
College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Kyungpook National University, Sangju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do 37224, Republic of Korea
Department of Cultural Heritage, Dongguk University, 30, Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea
Bristol Palaeobiology Group, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Coleoptera Archostemata Jinju Formation Lower Cretaceous

Abstract

The beetles from the Lower Cretaceous Lagerstätte in South Korea, Jinju Formation, remain largely unstudied. In the present study, the fossils of suborder Archostemata from the Jinju Formation are described and illustrated, including the complete bodies of Asiania pax gen. et sp. nov. and Brochocoleus sacheonensis sp. nov., and the isolated elytra of Brochocoleus cf. punctatus, Omma sp. and Zygadenia cornigera sp. nov.

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