†Sphingoquedius meto Jenkins Shaw et al. 2020 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: J. Jenkins Shaw, A. Solodovnikov, M. Bai and U. Kaulfuss. 2020. An amblyopinine rove beetle (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Amblyopinini) from the earliest Miocene Foulden Maar fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand. Journal of Paleontology 94:1082-1088
Belongs to Sphingoquedius according to J. Jenkins Shaw et al. 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: OU46635, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Foulden maar (I43/f8503), which is in an Aquitanian crater lake diatomite in the Foulden Hills Diatomite Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Foulden maar (I43/f8503)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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