†Antherophagus megalops Wickham 1913 (silken fungus beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1913. The Princeton collection of fossil beetles from Florissant. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 6:359-366
Belongs to Antherophagus according to H. F. Wickham 1913
Sister taxa: Antherophagus pallens, Antherophagus priscus
Type specimen: PU 6564, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (former Princeton collection), which is in an Eocene lacustrine - large shale/volcaniclastic in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (former Princeton collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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