Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Alternative combination: Lina titana
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1921. Die Insektenreste aus dem Lutetien von Messel bei Darmstadt. Abhandlungen der Hessischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt 7:2-15
Belongs to Chrysomela according to K. S. Nadein 2019
See also Meunier 1921
Sister taxa: Chrysomela calami, Chrysomela ceresti, Chrysomela debilis, Chrysomela hilberi, Chrysomela lichenis, Chrysomela matheroni, Chrysomela micropunctata, Chrysomela populi, Chrysomela punctigera, Chrysomela rudeli, Chrysomela succini, Chrysomela vesperalis, Lina wetteravica, Lina populeti, Lina sociata
Type specimen: 1119, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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