Rhyssomatus miocenae Pierce 1965 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Alternative combination: Rhyssematus miocenae

Full reference: W. D. Pierce. 1965. Fossil arthropods of California 26. Three new fossil insect sites in California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 64:157-162

Belongs to Rhyssomatus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Pierce 1965

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LACMIP S9112, an elytra. Its type locality is LACMIP 438, Woodcrest Drive, off Sepulveda Boulevard, which is in a Miocene marine shale in the Altamira Formation of California.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at LACMIP 438, Woodcrest Drive, off Sepulveda Boulevard

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