Insecta - Coleoptera - Schizocoleidae
Alternative combination: Elateridium angustum
Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42:720-756
Belongs to Metrorhynchites according to A. G. Ponomarenko 2011
Sister taxa: Metrorhynchites angustior, Metrorhynchites angustus, Metrorhynchites baculum, Metrorhynchites dilutes, Metrorhynchites dunstani, Metrorhynchites elongatus, Metrorhynchites grandis, Metrorhynchites longus, Metrorhynchites putativus, Metrorhynchites sydneiensis
Type specimen: AM F. 39328, an elytra. Its type locality is Glenlee railway cutting, which is in a Pelsonian/Illyrian pond shale in the Ashfield Shales Formation of Australia.
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Metrorhynchites angustum in the database
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