†Thanasimus florissantensis Wickham 1914 (checkered beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cleridae
Alternative combination: Enoclerus florissantensis
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1914. New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 53:423-494
Belongs to Thanasimus according to J. Kolibáč and D. Y. Huang 2016
See also Mawdsley 1992 and Wickham 1914
Sister taxa: Thanasimus ostenderus, Thanasimus taenianus
Type specimen: MCZ 2516, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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