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Pleocoma dolichophylla sp. nov. is described from the Yixian Formation. The species is of special interest, since it represents an oligotypic recent genus currently living only in extreme western North America.
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Original Russian Text © G.V. Nikolajev, D. Ren, 2012, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 5, pp. 49–52.
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Nikolajev, G.V., Ren, D. The earliest known species of the genus Pleocoma LeConte (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Pleocomidae) from the Mesozoic of China. Paleontol. J. 46, 495–498 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030112050061
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