Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Eudiagogus terrosus
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 Epicaerus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Scudder 1878, Scudder 1890, Scudder 1893 and Yunakov and Kirejtshuk 2011
Sister taxa: Epicaerus dilapsus, Epicaerus effossus, Epicaerus eradicatus, Epicaerus evigoratus, Epicaerus exanimis, Epicaerus excissus, Epicaerus fodinarum, Epicaerus saxatilis, Epicaerus subterraneus
Type specimen: 4024(4078), an exoskeleton. 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:
• Eocene of United States (3: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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