Hydrochus relictus Scudder 1890 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Hydrochus according to S. H. Scudder 1900

See also Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Hydrochus amictus, Hydrochus elongatus

Type specimen: Packard 88, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Green River (Packard Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Green River (Packard Collection)

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