Alloioscarabaeus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | †Alloioscarabaeidae Bai, Ren & Yang, 2012 |
| Genus: | †Alloioscarabaeus Bai, Ren & Yang, 2012 |
| Species: | †A. cheni
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| †Alloioscarabaeus cheni Bai, Ren & Yang, 2012
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Alloioscarabaeus is an extinct genus of insect in the order Coleoptera in the clade Scarabaeoidea. It is the only known member of the family Alloioscarabaeidae, and the genus only has one species, Alloioscarbaeus cheni, from the middle Jurassic period, 164.7 million to 155.7 million years ago in Inner Mongolia, China.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bai, Ming; Ahrens, Dirk; Yang, Xing-Ke; Ren, Dong (April 2012). "New fossil evidence of the early diversification of scarabs: Alloioscarabaeus cheni (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China: New fossil evidence of scarabs from China". Insect Science. 19 (2): 159–171. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01460.x. S2CID 54930162.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Alloioscarabaeus cheni". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
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