Tunguskagyrus
| Tunguskagyrus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Gyrinidae |
| Genus: | †Tunguskagyrus Yan et al., 2018 |
| Type species | |
| Tunguskagyrus planus Yan et al., 2018 | |
| Other species | |
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Tunguskagyrus yani Ponomarenko, 2021 | |
Tunguskagyrus is an extinct taxon of gyrinid beetle that lived in Siberia during the Lopingian epoch.[1]
Etymology
The generic name Tunguskagyrus derives from the Tunguska River and the beetle genus Gyrinus. The specific epithet of the type species, Tunguskagyrus planus, references the flattened body of the insect.[2]
References
- ↑ "Tunguskagyrus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ Yan, Evgeny V.; Beutel, Rolf G.; Lawrence, John F. (16 March 2018). "Whirling in the late Permian: ancestral Gyrinidae show early radiation of beetles before Permian-Triassic mass extinction". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18 (1). doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1139-8. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5857091. PMID 29548278. Retrieved 12 August 2026 – via Springer Nature Link.