†Neotermes grassei Piton 1940 (termite)
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Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae
Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303
Belongs to Neotermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Emerson 1969, Nel and Paicheler 1993, Piton 1940 and Snyder 1949
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN IPM-R.54380, a wing. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)
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