Nanoraphidia lithographica Jepson et al. 2011 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Full reference: J. Jepson, J. Ansorge, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2011. New snakeflies (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of the UK, Spain and Brazil. Palaeontology 54(2):385-395

Belongs to Nanoraphidia according to Y. N. Lu et al. 2015

See also Jepson et al. 2011

Sister taxon: Nanoraphidia electroburmica

Type specimen: FGWG 147, an exoskeleton (disarticulated body with four overlapping wings). Its type locality is La Cabrua outcrop, Sierra del Montsec (Ansorge FGWG coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the la Pedrera de Rubies Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at La Cabrua outcrop, Sierra del Montsec (Ansorge FGWG coll)

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