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A new species of crawling water beetles (Coleoptera, Haliplidae), Haliplus (subgenus unclear) cretaceus sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia, Bon-Tsagan (Bööntsagaan) locality.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Prokin, A.G. Ponomarenko, 2013, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, No. 1, pp. 68–71.
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Prokin, A.A., Ponomarenko, A.G. The first record of crawling water beetles (Coleoptera, Haliplidae) in the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleontol. J. 47, 89–93 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030113010115
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