Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: J. Rheinheimer. 2007. Neue fossile Rüsselkäfer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) aus dem Eozän des Baltischen Bernsteins und der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 365:1-24

Belongs to Palaeocrassirhinus according to A. A. Legalov 2023

See also Legalov 2015 and Rheinheimer 2007

Sister taxon: Palaeocrassirhinus messelensis

Type specimen: FIS MeI 3598, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit, grid square H8, 0.27-0.53 above alpha, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit, grid square H8, 0.27-0.53 above alpha

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.