Anthracohelops molassicus Heer 1883 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative combination: Helops molassicus

Full reference: O. Heer. 1883. Ueber die fossilen Insekten Grönlands. Flora Fossilis Grönlandica. Die Fossile Flora Grönlands 143-148

Belongs to Anthracohelops according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019

See also Haupt 1950, Heer 1883 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Anthracohelops gigas, Anthracohelops minutus, Anthracohelops wetteravicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Molasse, Lausanne, which is in an Aquitanian terrestrial sandstone in Switzerland

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Molasse, Lausanne

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