†Hipporhinops sternbergi Cockerell 1926 (snout beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1926. Some Tertiary fossil insects. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 18:313-324
Belongs to Hipporhinops according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Cockerell 1926 and Yunakov and Kirejtshuk 2011
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH In.26206, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (BMNH Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (BMNH Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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