Layer VII, ScMo–342 TP2, Piha'ena, Mo'orea (Holocene of French Polynesia)

Where: French Polynesia (17.5° S, 149.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 149.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Layer VII (291-296 cm depth), estimated age 3000-4000 years.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; unlithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N. Porch, J. Kahn in 2011

• Repository: Bishop Museum

Primary reference: J. Kolibáč, M. Bocakova, J. K. Liebherr, T. Ramage, and N. Porch. 2020. Extinct and extant Pacific Trogossitidae and the evolution of Cleroidea (Coleoptera) after the Late Triassic biotic crisis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191:846-882 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219255: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Trogossitidae
Tenebroides (Polynesibroides) tahiti Kolibáč and Porch 2020 bark gnawing beetle
Tenebroides (Polynesibroides) moorea n. sp. Kolibáč and Porch 2020 bark gnawing beetle