Insecta - Diptera - Tanyderidae
Full reference: E. D. Lukashevich and W. Krzemiński. 2009. New Jurassic Tanyderidae (Diptera) from Asia with first find of larvae. Zoosymposia 3:155-172
Belongs to Praemacrochile according to E. D. Lukashevich 2020
See also Dong et al. 2015, Lukashevich and Krzemiński 2009 and SkibiĆska 2016
Sister taxa: Praemacrochile chinensis, Praemacrochile decipiens, Praemacrochile dobbertinensis, Praemacrochile dryasis, Praemacrochile kaluginae, Praemacrochile ovalum, Praemacrochile stackelbergi
Type specimen: PIN 2554/934, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (2 collections), Kazakhstan (5), Mongolia (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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