Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Alternative combination: Elaterites wianamattensis
Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1916. Descriptions of the fossil Insects; Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of Queensland and New South Wales. Descriptions of the fossil Insects and stratigraphical features. Queensland Geological Survey (253)11-70
Belongs to Elateridium according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Kundrata et al. 2020, Tillyard 1916 and Tillyard 1918
Sister taxa: Elateridium angustius, Elateridium subulatum, Elateridium transversum
Type specimen: GSQI30, an elytra. Its type locality is Carrington Brick Company's clay pit, St Peter's (Dunstan collection), which is in a Pelsonian/Illyrian pond claystone in the Ashfield Shales Formation of Australia.
Distribution: found only at Carrington Brick Company's clay pit, St Peter's (Dunstan collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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