†Platydema antiquorum Wickham 1912 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
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 Platydema according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019
See also Bousquet et al. 2018 and Wickham 1912
Sister taxa: Platydema bethunei, Platydema geinitzi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant, Station 17, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 17
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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