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 Elater according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Wickham 1916
Sister taxa: Elater asmodeus, Elater berryi, Elater burmitinus, Elater canabinus, Elater florissantensis, Elater mitrus, Elater naumanni, Elater rohweri, Elater wallesii, Elater wisniowskii
Type specimen: MCZ 2751, 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: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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