Mesoderus

Mesoderus Temporal range: Barremian–Aptian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Dytiscidae
Subfamily:	† Liadytiscinae
Tribe:	† Mesoderini
Genus:	† Mesoderus Prokin & Ren, 2010

Mesoderus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least four described species in Mesoderus. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species

These four species belong to the genus Mesoderus:

• † Mesoderus magnus Prokin & Ren, 2010
• † Mesoderus ovatus Prokin, Petrov, B. Wang & Ponomarenko, 2013
• † Mesoderus punctatus Prokin, Petrov, B. Wang & Ponomarenko, 2013
• † Mesoderus ventralis Prokin & Ren, 2010

References

1. "Mesoderus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
2. "The Paleobiology Database, genus Mesoderus" . Retrieved 2019-06-18.
3. Prokin, Alexandr; Dong, Ren (2010). "New Mesozoic Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from China". Paleontological Journal. 44 (5): 526–533. doi: 10.1134/S0031030110050072 .
4. Prokin, Alexander A.; Petrov, Pyotr N.; Wang, Bo; Ponomarenko, Alexander (2013). "New fossil taxa and notes on the Mesozoic evolution of Liadytidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)" . Zootaxa. 3666 (2): 137–59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.2. PMID   26217842.
5. Nilsson, A.N. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-06-18.