Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Balaninus florissantensis
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1913. Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado. Bulletins from the Laboratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(4):3-29
Belongs to Curculio according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Wickham 1913
Sister taxa: Curculio anicularis, Curculio beeklyi, Curculio curvirostris, Curculio duttoni, Curculio extinctus, Curculio femoratus, Curculio flexirostris, Curculio geinitzi, Curculio havighorstensis, Curculio minusculoides, Curculio minusculus, Curculio nucum, Curculio restrictus, Curculio venosus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wilson Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large horizon in the Florissant Formation of Colorado
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Wilson Ranch, Florissant
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