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Zygadenia

Extinct genus of beetles

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Eleven species are included in the genus, after Strelnikova and Yan (2021, 2023). Kirejtshuk (2020) notes that the two Lower Jurassic Australian species Z. westraliensis and Z. martinae possibly merit placement in their own separate genus.

Jurassic species

Hettangian-Sinemurian (201.4 Ma to 192.9 Ma)

Xiaomeigou Formation, China
  • Z. dachaidanensis Song et al., 2024
  • Z. haixiensis Song et al., 2024

Sinemurian-Toarcian (199.5 Ma to 174.1 Ma)

Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia
  • Z. martinae Jarzembowski et al., 2015
  • Z. westraliensis Riek, 1968

Tithonian (152.1 Ma to 145.0 Ma)

Shar Teeg, Mongolia
  • Z. giebeli Ponomarenko, 2014
  • Z. handlirschi Ponomarenko, 2014

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