Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae
Full reference: O. Heer. 1868. Fossile Insecten von Nordgrönland. Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora der Polarländer 1:129-130
Belongs to Trogosita according to A. Handlirsch 1907
See also Heer 1868, Heer 1883, Kolibáč 2013, Schmied et al. 2009 and Scudder 1900
Sister taxa: Tenebroides (Polynesibroides), Tenebroides corrugata, Tenebroides emortua, Tenebroides eocenica, Tenebroides insignis, Tenebroides tenebrioides, Trogosita longicollis, Trogossita eocaenica, Trogosita koellikeri, Trogosita emortua, Trogosita amissa, Trogosita sculpturata, Trogosita assimilis, Trogosita bella
Type specimen: Its type locality is Upper Atanekerdluk, which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Atanekerdluk (1850s collections)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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