Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(3):3-38
Belongs to Amara according to H. F. Wickham 1914
See also Wickham 1912
Sister taxa: Amara (Amara), Amara (Bradytus), Amara (Celia), Amara (Curtonotus), Amara (Paracelia), Amara aenea, Amara arcticola, Amara aulica, Amara bifrons, Amara brunnea, Amara conflata, Amara danae, Amara erratica, Amara foersteri, Amara insignis, Amara interstitialis, Amara municipalis, Amara occlusa, Amara paleomelas, Amara pinguicula, Amara powellii, Amara primigenia, Amara princeps, Amara procera, Amara pseudobrunnea, Amara revocata, Amara sterilis, Amara veterata
Type specimen: UCM 70, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (Cockerell Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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