Cretomorgus

Cretomorgus ikhbogdensis is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia during the Lower Cretaceous, approximately 112 million years ago, making it the earliest preserved species of the subfamily Omorginae.^[1] C. ikhbogdensis is the sole species of the genus Cretomorgus.^[2]

Cretomorgus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Trogidae
Subfamily:	Omorginae
Genus:	†Cretomorgus Nikolajev, 2007
Species:	†C. ikhbogdensis
Binomial name
†Cretomorgus ikhbogdensis Nikolajev, 2007