Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, III. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 6:65-72
Belongs to Buprestites according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Cockerell 1920
Sister taxa: Buprestites aeneoviolacea, Buprestites agriloides, Buprestites alutacea, Buprestites carbonum, Buprestites debilis, Buprestites exstinctus, Buprestites falconeri, Buprestites goniaspis, Buprestites heeri, Buprestites lineatocollis, Buprestites major, Buprestites minnae, Buprestites obscura, Buprestites oeningensis, Buprestites splendida, Buprestites viridis, Buprestites xylographica
Type specimen: BMNH I.10423, an elytra. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Studland Bay, Isle of Purbeck, which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bagshot Beds, Studland Bay, Isle of Purbeck
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