Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1936. The Fauna of the Sunchal (or Margas Verdes) formation, Northern Argentina. American Museum Novitates 886:1-9
Belongs to Carabites according to T. D. A. Cockerell 1936
Sister taxa: Carabites anthracinus, Carabites arapahoensis, Carabites capellinii, Carabites creta, Carabites cuneatus, Carabites dubius, Carabites ellipticus, Carabites eocenicus, Carabites exanimus, Carabites exilis, Carabites feildenianus, Carabites gardneri, Carabites geinitzi, Carabites islandicus, Carabites kincaidi, Carabites laesicollis, Carabites parallelus, Carabites peracutus, Carabites rugosus, Carabites russelli, Carabites schueli, Carabites scoticus, Carabites vitimensis
Type specimen: AMNH 24522, an elytra. Its type locality is Ranges east of Sierra Santa Barbara, which is in a Paleocene lacustrine - small mudstone in the Maíz Gordo Formation of Argentina.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Ranges east of Sierra Santa Barbara
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.