Montsecbelus solutus Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985 (weevil)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Belidae

Alternative combination: Eobelus solutus

Full reference: P. E. S. Whalley and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1985. Fossil insects from the Lithographic Limestone Montsech (Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous), Lérida Province, Spain. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 38(5):381-412

Belongs to Montsecbelus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999, Legalov 2009, Legalov 2012, Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985 and Zherikhin and Gratshev 1997

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHM In 59510, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is La Pedrera de Rubies (BMNH 1955 collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at La Pedrera de Rubies (BMNH 1955 collection)

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