Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Alternative combination: Balaninus extinctus

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. On some fossil rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31(4):41-55

Belongs to Curculio according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Wickham 1912

Sister taxa: Curculio anicularis, Curculio beeklyi, Curculio curvirostris, Curculio duttoni, Curculio femoratus, Curculio flexirostris, Curculio florissantensis, Curculio geinitzi, Curculio havighorstensis, Curculio minusculoides, Curculio minusculus, Curculio nucum, Curculio restrictus, Curculio venosus

Type specimen: UCM, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 17, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 17

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