Abstract
We report new discoveries of diverse Hydrophiloidea (Staphyliniformia) from the Albian (Early Cretaceous) Jinju Formation, South Korea, including the genera Laetopsia Fikáček et al., 2012 and Cretotaenia Ponomarenko, 1977, a new species of Laetopsia (Laetopsia leei sp. nov.), a species putatively shared with the Barremian Yixian Formation of China (L. cf. hydraenoides), an undetermined species of Laetopsia, and a new record of Cretotaenia pallida Ponomarenko are described and illustrated.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 443-452 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Palaeoentomology |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2024 |
Keywords
- Hydrophiloidea
- Jinju Formation
- Lower Cretaceous
- palaeodiversity