Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Full reference: W. D. Pierce. 1944. Fossil arthropods of California 3. Description of a deep well Lower Miocene carabid beetle. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 43:10-12

Belongs to Bembidion according to W. D. Pierce 1944

Sister taxa: Bembidion (Asioperyphus), Bembidion (Bembidion), Bembidion (Bracteon), Bembidion (Diplocampa), Bembidion (Eodontium), Bembidion (Eupetedromus), Bembidion (Furcacampa), Bembidion (Hirmoplataphus), Bembidion (Hydrium), Bembidion (Melomalus), Bembidion (Metallina), Bembidion (Neobembidion), Bembidion (Nesocidium), Bembidion (Notaphus), Bembidion (Ochthedromus), Bembidion (Peryphanes), Bembidion (Peryphus), Bembidion (Philochthemphanes), Bembidion (Philochthus), Bembidion (Phyla), Bembidion (Plataphus), Bembidion (Princidium), Bembidion (Semicampa), Bembidion (Terminophanes), Bembidion (Testedium), Bembidion (Trepanedoris), Bembidion (Trepanes), Bembidion aeneum, Bembidion damnosum, Bembidion femoratum, Bembidion festivum, Bembidion gilvipes, Bembidion lunatum, Bembidion minimum, Bembidion obliquum, Bembidion schueppeli, Bembidion semipunctatum, Bembidion strenum, Bembidion virens

Type specimen: LACM A4709, an elytra. Its type locality is Ohio Oil well K.C.L.-G.No.1, 10450 feet depth, which is in a Burdigalian marine shale in California.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ohio Oil well K.C.L.-G.No.1, 10450 feet depth

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