Cretolimonia pygmaea Lukashevich 2009 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: E. D. Lukashevich. 2009. Limoniidae (Diptera) in the Upper Jurassic of Shar Teg, Mongolia. Zoosymposia 3:131-154

Belongs to Cretolimonia according to J. Q. Gao et al. 2015

See also Lukashevich 2009

Sister taxa: Cretolimonia dayana, Cretolimonia excelsa, Cretolimonia jurassica, Cretolimonia lukashevichae, Cretolimonia mikolajczyki, Cretolimonia popovi, Cretolimonia pseudojurassica

Type specimen: PIN 4270/2476, a wing. Its type locality is Shar-Teg, outcrop unspecified (PIN collection 4270), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Sharteg Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Shar-Teg, outcrop 423/6 (PIN collection 4270)

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