Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: A. A. Legalov, A. G. Kirejtshuk, and A. Nel. 2022. A new species of the genus Archaeoheilus Legalov, 2018 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Paleocene of Menat (France). Comptes Rendus Palevol 21:245-251
Belongs to Archaeoheilus according to A. A. Legalov et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Archaeoheilus deleticius, Archaeoheilus lacoei, Archaeoheilus ovalis, Archaeoheilus packardii, Archaeoheilus provectus, Archaeoheilus scudderi
Type specimen: MNT-Nel 2002, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (MNT collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (MNT collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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