Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 233624
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. On some fossil rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31(4):41-55
Belongs to Cleonini according to A. A. Legalov 2015
Sister taxa: Cleonolithus, Cleonus, Cleonus arvernensis, Cleonus degeneratus, Cleonus deucalionis, Cleonus foersteri, Cleonus fouilhouxii, Cleonus larinoides, Cleonus leucosiae, Cleonus primoris, Cleonus pyrrhae, Cleonus rohweri, Cleonus speciosus, Coniocleonus, Eocleonus, Pliocleonus, Scaphomorphus, Stephanocleonus
Type specimen: AMNH, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Average measurements (in mm): elytron length 4.90