Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Alternative combination: Tomoxia inundata

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1914. New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 53:423-494

Belongs to Petrimordella according to J. Batelka et al. 2023

See also Wickham 1914

Sister taxa: Petrimordella indata, Petrimordella lapidicola, Petrimordella nearctica, Petrimordella nigrapilosa, Petrimordella oligocenica, Petrimordella priscula, Petrimordella protogaea, Petrimordella rasnitsyni, Petrimordella scudderiana, Petrimordella smithiana, Petrimordella stygia

Type specimen: MCZ 2687/8, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.