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Avitortor

Avitortor is an extinct, fossil genus of hide beetle that lived during the Lower Cretaceous. Avitortor is the only genus of the subfamily Avitortorinae.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Trogidae
Subfamily: Avitortorinae
Nikolajev, 2007
Genus: Avitortor
Ponomarenko, 1977

Avitortor is an extinct, fossil genus of hide beetle that lived during the Lower Cretaceous. Avitortor is the only genus of the subfamily Avitortorinae.1

Species

  • Avitortor dolichodactylus Nikolajev 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
  • Avitortor leptoscelis Nikritin 1977 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Avitortor ovalis Nikolajev 2007 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Avitortor parallelus Nikolajev 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
  • Avitortor primitivus Ponomarenko, 1977
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