Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Balaninus minusculoides
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1911. Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant, with descriptions of several new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 30:53-69
Belongs to Curculio according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Wickham 1911 and Wickham 1912
Sister taxa: Curculio anicularis, Curculio beeklyi, Curculio curvirostris, Curculio duttoni, Curculio extinctus, Curculio femoratus, Curculio flexirostris, Curculio florissantensis, Curculio geinitzi, Curculio havighorstensis, Curculio minusculus, Curculio nucum, Curculio restrictus, Curculio venosus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14
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