Insecta - Dermaptera - Dermapteridae

Full reference: R. S. Kelly, A. J. Ross, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2018. Earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Mesozoic of England and Australia, described from isolated tegmina, including the first species to be named from the Triassic. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:129-143

Belongs to Trivenapteron according to R. S. Kelly et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TTNCM 489, a tegmen. Its type locality is Strawberry Bank quarry, north of Ilminster, which is in a Falciferum marine limestone in the Beacon Limstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Strawberry Bank quarry, north of Ilminster

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