Insecta - Coleoptera - Schizocoleidae
Alternative combination: Mesorhynchophora dunstani
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 Metrorhynchites according to A. G. Ponomarenko 2011
See also Tillyard 1916
Sister taxa: Metrorhynchites angustior, Metrorhynchites angustum, Metrorhynchites angustus, Metrorhynchites baculum, Metrorhynchites dilutes, Metrorhynchites elongatus, Metrorhynchites grandis, Metrorhynchites longus, Metrorhynchites putativus, Metrorhynchites sydneiensis
Type specimen: GSQI27, 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)
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