ammonites
Bembidium cyaneomicans Piton 1940 (ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Bembidium according to L. Piton 1940

Sister taxa: Bembidium exoletum, Bembidium fragmentum, Bembidium glaciatum, Bembidium laevigatum, Bembidium obductum

Type specimen: Coll. Piton 28, an elytra. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Thanetian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

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Average measurements (in mm): elytron 3.75 x 1.25