Tritoma binotata Scudder 1878

Insecta - Coleoptera - Erotylidae

Alternative combinations: Mycotretus binotata, Mycotretus binotatus

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(4):747-776

Belongs to Tritoma according to O. Keller and P. E. Skelley 2019

See also Scudder 1878, Scudder 1885, Scudder 1890, Scudder 1900 and Wickham 1920

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: 3990(4015), an exoskeleton (dorsal aspect). Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Scudder collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Distribution: found only at Petrified fish cut (Scudder collection)

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