Mongoloxya ponomarenkoi Gorochov 1992 (pygmy mole cricket)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Tridactylidae

Full reference: A. V. Gorochov. 1992. Novye iskopaemye pryamokrylye (Orthoptera) i palochnik (Phasmoptera) iz Mezozoya i Paleozoya Mongolii. Novye Taksony Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Rossiisko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:117-121

Belongs to Mongoloxya according to A. V. Gorochov 1992

Sister taxon: Mongoloxya fossor

Type specimen: PIN 3559/8371, a tegmen. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559)

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