Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Full reference: F. W. Shockley and D. Greenwalt. 2013. Ptenidium kishenehnicum (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), a New Fossil Described from the Kishenehn Oil Shales, with a Checklist of Previously Known Fossil Ptiliids. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 115(2):173-181
Belongs to Ptenidium according to F. W. Shockley and D. Greenwalt 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 545816, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Spring site, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn), which is in a Lutetian lacustrine - large shale in the Kishenehn Formation of Montana.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Montana collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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