Chrysomelites fabricii Heer 1868 (leaf beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1868. Fossile Insecten von Nordgrönland. Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora der Polarländer 1:129-130

Belongs to Chrysomelites according to S. H. Scudder 1900

See also Heer 1868 and Heer 1883

Sister taxa: Chrysomelites alaskanus, Chrysomelites allochlamys, Chrysomelites azureus, Chrysomelites bartonicus, Chrysomelites bisornatus, Chrysomelites cupreus, Chrysomelites danielis, Chrysomelites foveolatus, Chrysomelites prodromus, Chrysomelites quadrilineatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Atanekerdluk (1850s collections), which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Atanekerdluk (1850s collections)

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