Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae
Alternative combination: Platyura obliqua
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480
Belongs to Macrocera according to V. Blagoderov 2019
See also Cockerell 1921 and Evenhuis 2006
Sister taxa: Macrocera apithanos, Macrocera archaica, Macrocera electricornis, Macrocera grandis, Macrocera minuta, Macrocera umbonata
Type specimen: BMNH I.9657, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
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