Ephemeropsis Eichwald 1864 (mayfly)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae

Synonym: Phacelobranchus Handlirsch 1906

Full reference: E. Eichwald. 1864. Sur un terrain jurassique à poissons et insectes d'eau douce de la Sibérie orientale. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Deuxième Série 21:19-25

Parent taxon: Hexagenitidae according to R. Willmann 2007

See also Carpenter 1992, Handlirsch 1906, Hong 1982, Hong 1992, Lin 1976, Lin 1982, Sinitshenkova 1990 and Tshernova 1961

Sister taxa: Baikalogenites, Caenoephemera, Costalimella, Cratohexagenites, Epicharmeropsis, Hexagenites, Hexameropsis, Mongologenites, Protoligoneuria, Shantous, Siberiogenites

Subtaxa: Ephemeropsis martynovae Ephemeropsis melanurus Ephemeropsis middendorji Ephemeropsis trisetalis

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (17 collections), Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (33)

• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 56 collections including 58 occurrences

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