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SUBMITTER: Fikacek M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3260763 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fikáček Martin M Prokin Alexander A Angus Robert B RB
ZooKeys 20110924 130
The recent hydrophiloid species Helophorus (Gephelophorus) sibiricus (Motschulsky, 1860) is recorded from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo assigned to the Ombinsk Formation. A detailed comparison with recent specimens allowed a confident identification of the fossil specimen, which is therefore the oldest record of a recent species for the Hydrophiloidea. The paleodistribution as well as recent distribution of the species is summarized, and the relevance of the fossil is discussed. In ad ...[more]