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New click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the cretaceous of Russia and Kazakhstan

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A new tribe, two new genera, and seven new species of click beetles are described: Pollostelaterini, trib. nov., Pollostelater baissensis, gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia (Baisa locality), five new species in the genus Cryptocoelus Dolin et Nel C. sinitshenkovae, sp. nov. (Romanovka locality), C. shcherbakovi, sp. nov., C. baissensis, sp. nov., C. lukashevichae, sp. nov., C. dolini, sp. nov. (all from Baisa locality), and Turonelater giganteus, gen. et sp. nov. from the Turonian of Southern Kazakhstan (Kzyl-Dzhar locality).

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  1. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Alexeev, 2011, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, No. 4, pp. 64–70.

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Alexeev, A.V. New click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the cretaceous of Russia and Kazakhstan. Paleontol. J. 45, 423–431 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030111040022

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