Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. S. Kurochkin. 2019. Taxonomic names, in The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:405-492
Belongs to Prometopia (Prometopia) according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. S. Kurochkin 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NHMUK I.17438, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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