Cretorabus
Genus of ground beetle
Cretorabus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Genus: | Cretorabus |
Type species | |
Cretorabus capitatus Ponomarenko 1977 |
Cretoabus is a genus of ground beetle (Carabidae) that lived during the Lower Cretaceous epoch in the Cretaceous period inside modern day Inner Mongolia, China.[1] This genus contains several species such as Cretorabus capitatus, Cretorabus latus, Cretorabus medius, Cretobus orientalis, Cetorbus ovalis, Cretorabus rasnitsyni and Cretorabus sulcatus.[2]