Insecta - Cnemidolestodea - Spanioderidae
Full reference: O. Béthoux, J. J. Gu, Y. L. Yue and D. Ren. 2012. Miamia maimai n. sp., a new Pennsylvanian stem-orthopteran insect, and a case study on the application of cladotypic nomenclature. Fossil Record 15:103-113
Belongs to Miamia according to N. Robin et al. 2016
See also Béthoux et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Miamia bronsoni, Miamia rossorum, Miamia silvatica, Spaniodera simplex
Type specimen: CNU-NX1-280, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Xiaheyan, Zhongwei County (CNU coll), which is in a Westphalian B/Westphalian C interdistributary bay siliciclastic in the Yanghugou Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of China (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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