Pachymerus petrensis Scudder 1877 (seed bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Rhyparochromidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1877. The First Discovered Traces of Fossil Insects in the American Tertiaries. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3:741-762

Belongs to Pachymerus according to S. H. Scudder 1890

See also Scudder 1877

Sister taxa: Aphanus contractus, Aphanus dilatatus, Aphanus murchisonae, Aphanus pulchellus, Pachymerus heeri, Pachymerus antiquus, Pachymerus detectus, Pachymerus obsoletus, Pachymerus morio, Pachymerus coloratus, Pachymerus grassei, Pachymerus bisignatus, Pachymerus senius, Pachymerus cruciatus, Pachymerus oblongus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Fossil Cañon

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