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Paratrox

Paratrox medvedevi is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia around 125 to 113 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous. P. medvedevi is the only species of the genus Paratrox.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Trogidae
Subfamily: Troginae
Genus: Paratrox
Nikolajev, 2009
Species:
P. medvedevi
Binomial name
Paratrox medvedevi
Nikolajev, 2009

Paratrox medvedevi is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia around 125 to 113 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous. P. medvedevi is the only species of the genus Paratrox.12

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