Insecta - Hymenoptera - Maimetshidae

Alternative combination: Turgonaliscus cooperi

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1998. Taxonomic names, in Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Purbeck and Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and their biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. Cretaceous Research 19:329-391

Belongs to Turgonalus according to L. Li et al. 2025

See also Engel 2016 and Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998

Sister taxa: Turgonalus minor, Turgonalus najlae

Type specimen: BMB 016385/6, a forewing. Its type locality is Rudgwick Brickworks, Upper Weald Clay, which is in a Barremian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal horizon in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rudgwick Brickworks, Upper Weald Clay

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