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Paleontologists Find Frog-Legged Beetle Fossil in Colorado (Attenborough's beauty)

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The holotype is a fantastic specimen, which is illustrated.

 

Paleontologists Find Frog-Legged Beetle Fossil in Colorado

Sci News, Aug 10, 2021

 

The paper is:


Frank-Thorsten Krell & Francesco Vitali. Attenborough’s beauty:

exceptional pattern preservation in a frog-legged leaf beetle from

the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera,

Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae). Papers in Palaeontology, published

online August 5, 2021; doi: 10.1002/spp2.1398

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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Please forgive me if this has already been discussed.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/08/07/49-million-year-old-beautiful-beetle-named-after-sir-david-f-attenborough/?sh=41d211f39cab&fbclid=IwAR0LqeAilIETyuYR8q3AKMpw7JxI0EINr9k-b2Co4Jjw97tT0uzAnH7rqp8

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Topics merged.  ;)

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