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Article: First record of an aquatic beetle larva (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Parsora Formation (Permo-Triassic), India

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2007
Page(s): 1335 1340
Author(s): S. C. Ghosh, T. K. Pal and A. Nandi
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GHOSH, S. C., PAL, T. K., NANDI, A. 2007. First record of an aquatic beetle larva (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Parsora Formation (Permo-Triassic), India. Palaeontology50, 6, 1335–1340.

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Abstract

The fossilized larva of an aquatic beetle, Protodytiscus johillaensis gen. et sp. nov., is described from a ferruginous micaceous siltstone bed of the Permo-Triassic Parsora Formation of the South Rewa Gondwana Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India, and its systematic position and ordinal relationships within the coleopterous suborder Adephaga are discussed. Hitherto, the oldest known fossils of the hydradephagan superfamily Dytiscoidea have been Jurassic. The discovery of P. johillaensis extends the range of the Dytiscoidea back to the Permo-Triassic period.
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