| Petrimordella nearctica Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Mordellidae |
| Informal group: | † Petrimordella |
| Species: | †P. nearctica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Petrimordella nearctica (Wickham, 1914) | |
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Petrimordella nearctica is a fossil species of tumbling flower beetles the family Mordellidae. It was discovered in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. [1]
Petrimordella is a collective group, a convenient way to classify a group of species that cannot be allocated with confidence to normal genera. Collective groups are treated as genus-group names with special provisions. [2]