Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae
Alternative combination: Mordella lapidicola
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1909. New Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 28(4):126-130
Belongs to Petrimordella according to J. Batelka et al. 2023
See also Wickham 1909
Sister taxa: Petrimordella indata, Petrimordella inundata, Petrimordella nearctica, Petrimordella nigrapilosa, Petrimordella oligocenica, Petrimordella priscula, Petrimordella protogaea, Petrimordella rasnitsyni, Petrimordella scudderiana, Petrimordella smithiana, Petrimordella stygia
Type specimen: YPM cat. 9, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 13B, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
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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