†Palaeosclerum pohli Nabozhenko and Kirejtshuk 2017 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Alternative combination: Paleosclerum pohli
Full reference: M. Nabozhenko and A. Kirejtshuk. 2017. The oldest opatrine terrestrial darkling beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae) from the Paleocene of Menat (France). PalZ 91:307-313
Belongs to Palaeosclerum according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021
See also Nabozhenko 2019 and Nabozhenko and Kirejtshuk 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: D.MHLCLFE.2016.1.1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Clermont-Ferrand collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (Clermont-Ferrand collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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