Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Alternative combination: Mesoraphidia parvula
Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1925. To the knowledge of fossil insects from Jurassic beds in Turkestan. 1. Raphidioptera. Izvestiya Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk 19(6-8):233-246
Belongs to Grimaldiraphidia according to Y. N. Lu et al. 2015
See also Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011, Engel 2002 and Martynov 1925
Sister taxa: Grimaldiraphidia luzzii, Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli, Grimaldiraphidia purbeckensis
Type specimen: PIN 1775/4, an exoskeleton (whole female, wings overlapping). 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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