Alloioscarabaeus

Alloioscarabaeus; Temporal range: Middle Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Genus:	Alloioscarabaeus
Species:	A. cheni
Binomial name
	Alloioscarabaeus cheni;

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Alloioscarbaeus is an extinct genus of insect in the order Coleoptera in the clade Scarabaeoidea. The genus only has one species which is Alloioscarbaeus cheni which lived during the middle Jurassic period, 164.7 million to 155.7 million years ago in Inner Mongolia, China.^[1]^[2]

References

^ 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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[1] 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.

[2] "Fossilworks: Alloioscarabaeus cheni". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2023-10-24.

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