†Menatorhis elegans Piton 1940 (snout beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combinations: Balaninus elegans, Curculio elegans
Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303
Belongs to Menatorhis according to A. A. Legalov et al. 2017
See also Legalov 2015 and Piton 1940
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN R07010, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)
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