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PALAEONTOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 1335-1340Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00701.x
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coleoptera; dytiscoidea; estheriids; Gondwana rocks; permo-triassic; relationships
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The fossilized larva of an aquatic beetle, Protodytiscus johillaensis gen. et sp. nov., is described from a ferruginous micaceous siltstone bed of the Permo-Triassic Parsora Formation of the South Rewa Gondwana Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India, and its systematic position and ordinal relationships within the coleopterous suborder Adephaga are discussed. Hitherto, the oldest known fossils of the hydradephagan superfamily Dytiscoidea have been Jurassic. The discovery of P. johillaensis extends the range of the Dytiscoidea back to the Permo-Triassic period.
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