Insecta - Diptera - Protopleciidae
Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1964. Istoricheskoe razvitie dvukrylykh nasekomykh. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 100:1-311
Belongs to Mesoplecia according to B. B. Rohdendorf 1964
Sister taxa: Mesoplecia anfracta, Mesoplecia coadnata, Mesoplecia fastigata, Mesoplecia jurassica, Mesoplecia mediana, Mesoplecia oleynikovi, Mesoplecia plena, Mesoplecia sibirica, Mesoplecia sinica, Mesoplecia xinboensis
Type specimen: PIN 2452/01, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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