Platystethus carcareus Scudder 1900 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1900. Adephagous and clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary deposits at Florissant, Colorado with descriptions of a few other forms and a systematic list of the non-rhynchophorus Tertiary Coleoptera of North America. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 40:1-148

Belongs to Platystethus according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2016

See also Herman 2001 and Scudder 1900

Sister taxa: Platystethus americanus, Platystethus archetypus, Platystethus arenarius, Platystethus cornutus, Platystethus nitens, Platystethus nodifrons

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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