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Protocoleopteragroup is extinct

Containing group: Coleoptera

References

Beutel, R. 1997. Über Phylogenese und Evolution der Coleoptera (Insecta), insbesondere der Adephaga. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenshaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, 31:1-164.

Ponomarenko, A. G. 1969a. Cretaceous insects from Labrador. 4. A new family of beetles (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Psyche 76(3):306-310.

Ponomarenko, A. G. 1969b. Historical development of the Coleoptera-Archostemata. Trudy paleontologicheskogo instituta akademii nauk SSSR 125:1-240.

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