†Caputoraptor elegans Bai et al. 2018 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Alienoptera - Alienopteridae
Full reference: M. Bai, R. G. Beutel, and B. Wipfler. 2018. Taxonomic names, in A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology 28:438-443
Belongs to Caputoraptor according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022
See also Bai et al. 2018, Barden et al. 2020 and Kočárek 2018
Sister taxon: Caputoraptor vidit
Type specimen: IZAS-QC-2017-01, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (IZAS collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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