Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1916. The fossil Elateridae of Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 60(12):493-527
Belongs to Cardiophorus according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Wickham 1916
Sister taxa: Cardiophorus braunii, Cardiophorus deprivatus, Cardiophorus exhumatus, Cardiophorus florissantensis, Cardiophorus inclusus, Cardiophorus lithographus, Cardiophorus requiescens, Cardiophorus yatsenkokhmelevskyi
Type specimen: MCZ 2765, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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