Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: T. Wappler. 2003. Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel. Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 2:1-241

Belongs to Macropunctum according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Wappler 2003

Sister taxa: Macropunctum angulosum, Macropunctum angulosum, Macropunctum angustiscutellum, Macropunctum eckfeldi, Macropunctum eocaenicum, Macropunctum latiscutellum, Macropunctum messelense, Macropunctum meunieri, Macropunctum minutum, Macropunctum promptum, Macropunctum rebugense, Macropunctum rossi, Macropunctum senckenbergi

Type specimen: PE_2000/955 LS, an exoskeleton (complete beetle). Its type locality is Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 2000 collection), which is in a MP 13 crater lake siltstone/shale in the Eifel Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 2000 collection)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.