Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:1-178
Belongs to Locustopsis according to F. E. Zeuner 1942
See also Martynov 1937
Sister taxa: Locustopsis africanus, Locustopsis anatolica, Locustopsis apicalis, Locustopsis bucklandi, Locustopsis cockerelli, Locustopsis cubitalis, Locustopsis dubia, Locustopsis elegans, Locustopsis elongata, Locustopsis ferghanensis, Locustopsis germari, Locustopsis gyra, Locustopsis karatavica, Locustopsis maculosa, Locustopsis mecklenburgica, Locustopsis nana, Locustopsis picta, Locustopsis reducta, Locustopsis rhytofemoralis, Locustopsis shurabica, Locustopsis sippeli, Locustopsis spectabilis, Gomphocerites heeriana
Type specimen: PIN 976/9, a hindwing (hindwing without base). Its type locality is Shurab II, Ditch 63 (TSNIGRI collection 976), which is in a Toarcian terrestrial horizon in the Sulyukta Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Shurab II, Ditch 63 (TSNIGRI collection 976)
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