†Gyrophaena saxicola Scudder 1876 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1876. Fossil Coleoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2(1):77-87
Belongs to Gyrophaena according to S. Yamamoto et al. 2016
See also Scudder 1876, Scudder 1877, Scudder 1890 and Scudder 1900
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Chagrin Valley, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Chagrin Valley
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