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''Pareuryomma'' is an extinct genus of Ommatine beetle. It is known from three species, ''P. angustum, P. cardiobasis'' and P''. tylodes'', all known from the
Aptian The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous Epoch or Series and encompasses the time from 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma to 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma (million years ago), a ...
aged Yixian Formation of China. The genus was first described in 2012, and formerly included the species ''Pareuryomma ancistrodonta'' from the Middle Jurassic
Jiulongshan Formation The Haifanggou Formation (), also known as the Jiulongshan Formation (), is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou () village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. The formation consists of coarse conglomerates ...
, China, which was transferred to the genus '' Omma'' in 2020. The species ''P. angustum'' was formerly thought to be part of ''
Brochocoleus ''Brochocoleus'' is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, known from the Early Jurassic to the Early Late Cretaceous. 9 species are currently recognised, with many species being reassigned to other genera by Kirejtshuk's major sys ...
''. The genus is characterised by "slender body, long and subparallelsided or slightly narrowed head with moderately prominent eyes and more or less prominent temples, narrow pronotum with more or less explanate lateral carinae, elytra with the veins more or less well expressed and independently ending on Sc, large cells more or less arranged in rows on disc and moderately widely explanate sides of the elytra, and abdominal ventrites co-planar."''''


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