Petrimordella scudderiana 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. scudderiana |
Binomial name | |
†Petrimordella scudderiana (Wickham, 1914) | |
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Petrimordella scudderiana 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]