title: Avitortor
text: # Avitortor
  
  Avitortor is an extinct, fossil genus of hide beetle that lived during the Lower Cretaceous. Avitortor is the only genus of the subfamily Avitortorinae.
  
  ## Species
  
  * †Avitortor dolichodactylus Nikolajev 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
  * †Avitortor leptoscelis Nikritin 1977 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  * †Avitortor ovalis Nikolajev 2007 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  * †Avitortor parallelus Nikolajev 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
  * †Avitortor primitivus Ponomarenko, 1977
  