Mormolucoides articulatus Hitchcock 1858 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts xii-214

Belongs to Mormolucoides according to P. Huber et al. 2003

See also Handlirsch 1906, Hitchcock 1858, Hitchcock and Grier 1927, Scudder 1867, Scudder 1868 and Scudder 1885

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PMNH 47/11[8], a nymph (beetle larva). Its type locality is Horse Race, Turner's Falls, Montague, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine shale in the Mount Toby Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (7: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)

• Triassic of United States (2: North Carolina)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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