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A new subfamily, Pseudobrieniinae, including the new genus Pseudobrienia and the new species Pseudobrienia rasnitsyni, Kararhynchus jurassicus, and K. gratshevi, are described from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Karatau. K. occiduus Zherikhin et Gratshev, 1993 is redescribed.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Legalov, 2012, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 1, pp. 71–76.
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Legalov, A.A. New Obrieniidae from the jurassic of Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea). Paleontol. J. 46, 73–78 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030112010091
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