Petrimordella smithiana Wickham 1913

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Alternative combination: Mordellistena smithiana

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1913. Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado. Bulletins from the Laboratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(4):3-29

Belongs to Petrimordella according to J. Batelka et al. 2023

See also Wickham 1913

Sister taxa: Petrimordella indata, Petrimordella inundata, Petrimordella lapidicola, Petrimordella nearctica, Petrimordella nigrapilosa, Petrimordella oligocenica, Petrimordella priscula, Petrimordella protogaea, Petrimordella rasnitsyni, Petrimordella scudderiana, Petrimordella stygia

Type specimen: Its type locality is Wilson Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large horizon in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Distribution: found only at Wilson Ranch, Florissant

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