Perlucipecta santanensis Lee 2016 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Full reference: S. W. Lee. 2016. Taxonomic diversity of cockroach assemblages (Blattaria, Insecta) of the Aptian Crato Formation (Cretaceous, NE Brazil). Geologica Carpathica 67:433-450

Belongs to Perlucipecta according to P. Vršanský 2020

See also Lee 2016

Sister taxa: Perlucipecta aurea, Perlucipecta cosmopolitana, Perlucipecta vrsanskyi

Type specimen: SMNS 66308, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato (SMNS collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Crato (SMNS collection)

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