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Magnocoleidae is an extinct family of beetles in the suborder Archostemata. It was first described in 1998 by Hong, who attributes a single genus, ''Magnocoleus'', to this family. The genus contains a single species ''Magnocoleus huangjiapuensis''. The species was extant during the
Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
between 130.0 and 125.45 Mya.


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Archostemata Cretaceous insects of Asia Prehistoric insect genera {{cretaceous-insect-stub