Insecta - Reculida - Geinitziidae
Alternative combination: Megasepididontus grandis
Full reference: D. Y. Huang and A. Nel. 2008. New "Grylloblattida" related to the genus Prosepididontus Handlirsch, 1920 in the Middle Jurassic of China (Insecta: Geinitziidae). Alcheringa 32:395-403
Belongs to Shurabia according to Y. Y. Cui et al. 2012
See also Huang and Nel 2008
Sister taxa: Shurabia aleda, Shurabia angustata, Shurabia anomala, Shurabia australis, Shurabia bashkuevi, Shurabia creta, Shurabia elegans, Shurabia ferganensis, Shurabia hissarica, Shurabia inferior, Shurabia izyumica, Shurabia kapokkraalensis, Shurabia lukashevichae, Shurabia magna, Shurabia minuta, Shurabia minutissima, Shurabia ovata, Shurabia parvula, Shurabia permiana, Shurabia postiretis, Shurabia serrata, Shurabia sogutensis, Shurabia taewani, Shurabia tanga
Type specimen: NIGP 148117, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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