Cretoraphidiopsis bontsaganensis Ponomarenko 1988 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Baissopteridae

Alternative combinations: Cretinocellia bontsaganensis, Cretoraphidia bontsaganensis

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1988. Novye Mezozojskie Nasekomye. Novye Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 33:71-80

Belongs to Cretoraphidiopsis according to M. S. Engel 2002

See also Ponomarenko 1988 and Willmann 1994

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3559/6022, an exoskeleton (wing & poorly preserved body). Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

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

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