†Galerucella picea Scudder 1879 (leaf beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1879. Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for 1877-1878 175-185
Belongs to Galerucella according to S. H. Scudder 1900
See also Scudder 1879, Scudder 1890 and Scudder 1895
Sister taxa: Galerucella affinis, Galerucella emarginata, Galerucella serrata
Type specimen: GSC 62, an elytra (pair of elytra). Its type locality is Whipsaw Creek (Nine Mile Creek), which is in a Ypresian lacustrine mudstone in the Allenby Formation of Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Whipsaw Creek (Nine Mile Creek)
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