†Depressonotum priscum Grimaldi and Kirk-Spriggs 2012 (Quasimodo fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Curtonotidae
Full reference: D. A. Grimaldi and A. H. Kirk-Spriggs. 2012. Fossil Curtonotidae (Diptera: Schizophora: Ephydroidea). American Museum Novitates 3760:1-16
Belongs to Depressonotum according to D. A. Grimaldi and A. H. Kirk-Spriggs 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH DR11-7, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)
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