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Calicovatellus
Calicovatellus is an extinct genus of dytiscid beetle in the subfamily Hydroporinae. As of 2018[update], one species is recognized, Calicovatellus petrodytes. It was found in the Barstow Formation in southern California and dates to the Miocene.[2][3]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dytiscidae |
| Tribe: | Vatellini |
| Genus: | †Calicovatellus K.B.Miller & Lubkin, 2001[2] |
| Type species | |
| †Calicovatellus petrodytes K.B.Miller & Lubkin, 2001 | |
References edit
- ^ "†Calicovatellus Miller and Lubkin 2001 (predaceous diving beetle)". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ a b Miller, Kelly B.; Lubkin, Sara H. (2001). "Calicovatellus petrodytes, a New Genus and Species of Primitive Vatelline Diving Beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Vatellini) from the Miocene Barstow Formation, Southern California, USA". Journal of Paleontology. 75 (4): 890–894. Bibcode:2001JPal...75..890M. doi:10.1017/S0022336000016991. JSTOR 1307008. S2CID 62901288.
- ^ Miller, Kelly B. (2005). "Revision of the New World and south-east Asian Vatellini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) and phylogenetic analysis of the tribe". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144 (4): 430. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00180.x.