Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: O. Heer. 1862. On the fossil flora of Bovey Tracey. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152:1039-1086
Belongs to Buprestites according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Heer 1862
Sister taxa: Buprestites aeneoviolacea, Buprestites agriloides, Buprestites alutacea, Buprestites carbonum, Buprestites debilis, Buprestites exstinctus, Buprestites goniaspis, Buprestites heeri, Buprestites lineatocollis, Buprestites major, Buprestites minnae, Buprestites obscura, Buprestites oeningensis, Buprestites purbecensis, Buprestites splendida, Buprestites viridis, Buprestites xylographica
Type specimen: Its type locality is Divett potteries, Bovey Tracey, which is in an Oligocene pond siltstone in the Bovey Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Divett potteries, Bovey Tracey
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