Balticobaetisca velteni Staniczek and Bechly 2002 (armored mayfly)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Baetiscidae

Full reference: A. H. Staniczek and G. Bechly. 2002. First fossil record of the mayfly family Baetiscidae from Baltic amber (Insecta: Ephemeroptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 322:1-11

Belongs to Balticobaetisca according to A. H. Staniczek et al. 2022

See also Staniczek and Bechly 2002

Sister taxa: Balticobaetisca bispinata, Balticobaetisca stuttgardia

Type specimen: SMNS BB-2376, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde (SMNS) collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde (SMNS) collection

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