†Melanactes cockerelli Wickham 1908 (click beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1908. New fossil Elateridae from Florissant. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 26:76-78
Belongs to Melanactes according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Wickham 1908 and Wickham 1916
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: YPM 3, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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