Mesolobites
| Mesolobites Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | †Schizocoleidae |
| Genus: | †Mesolobites Carpenter, 1986 |
| Synonyms | |
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Lobites Dunstan, 1923 | |
Mesolobites is a form genus of fossils of isolated beetle elytra from the Mesozoic of Australia and China, placed in the form family Schizocoleidae. The genus was first established in 1923 by Australian geologist Benjamin Dunstan under the name Lobites, derived from lobos ("pod"), for three Late Triassic fossils from Queensland that were doubtfully assigned to the family Buprestidae. It was renamed to Mesolobites by Frank M. Carpenter in 1986, the name Lobites being already used for a genus of Ceratitida, Lobites Mojsisovics, 1873.