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Cryptophagus bassleri

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae

Taxonomy
Cryptophagus bassleri was named by Wickham (1913). Its type specimen is USNM 59640, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (USNM Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.