†Orapaeus cretaceus Kuschel and Oberprieler 1994 (weevil)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae
Full reference: G. Kuschel and R. G. Oberprieler. 1994. Description of new taxa, in Cretaceous weevils from southern Africa, with description of a new genus and species and phylogenetic and zoogeographical comments (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Entomologica Scandinavica 25:137-149
Belongs to Orapaeus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Kuschel and Oberprieler 1994 and Legalov 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BP/2/27257, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Orapa (Bernard Price Institute)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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