Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae
Alternative combination: Tetraphalerus oligocenicus
Full reference: R. A. Crowson. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 5:147-157
Belongs to Tetraphalerites according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Crowson 1962, Ponomarenko 2006 and Tan et al. 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH I.8611, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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