Mesodytes

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Barremian|Aptian}}

| display_parents = 3

| genus = Mesodytes

| parent_authority = Prokin, Petrov, Wang & Ponomarenko, 2013

| species = rhantoides

| authority = Prokin, Petrov, B. Wang & Ponomarenko, 2013

}}

Mesodytes is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Mesodytes, M. rhantoides.

References

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{{Cite web| title=Mesodytes

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/8622670

| website=GBIF

| accessdate=2019-06-18

}}

{{Cite web| title=The Paleobiology Database, genus Mesodytes

| url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=281837

| accessdate=2019-06-18

}}

{{Cite journal

| title = New Mesozoic Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from China

| date = 2010

| last1 = Prokin | first1 = Alexandr

| last2 = Dong | first2 = Ren

| journal = Paleontological Journal

| volume = 44| issue = 5

| pages = 526–533

| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226991297

| doi = 10.1134/S0031030110050072| doi-access =

| bibcode = 2010PalJ...44..526P

}}

{{Cite journal

| title = New fossil taxa and notes on the Mesozoic evolution of Liadytidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

| date = 2013

| last1 = Prokin | first1 = Alexander A.

| last2 = Petrov | first2 = Pyotr N.

| last3 = Wang | first3 = Bo

| last4 = Ponomarenko | first4 = Alexander

| journal = Zootaxa

| volume = 3666| issue = 2

| pages = 137–59

| url = https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/1483

| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.2

| pmid = 26217842

}}

{{Cite report

| title = A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)

| last1 = Nilsson

| first1 = A.N.

| url = http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/World%20catalogue%20of%20Dytiscidae%202015.pdf

| date =

| access-date = 2019-06-18

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190726055144/http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/World%20catalogue%20of%20Dytiscidae%202015.pdf

| archivedate = 2019-07-26

| url-status = dead

}}

Category:Dytiscidae