Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Alternative combination: Curculionites bartonicus
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, III. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 6:65-72
Belongs to Chrysomelites according to T. D. A. Cockerell 1920
See also Legalov 2015
Sister taxa: Chrysomelites alaskanus, Chrysomelites allochlamys, Chrysomelites azureus, Chrysomelites bisornatus, Chrysomelites cupreus, Chrysomelites danielis, Chrysomelites fabricii, Chrysomelites foveolatus, Chrysomelites prodromus, Chrysomelites quadrilineatus
Type specimen: BMNH In. 19022, an elytra. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH), which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH)
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