Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae
Full reference: K. Kopeć, W. Krzemiński, A. Soszyńska-Maj, Y. Z. Cao, and D. Ren. 2018. A new species of Orthobittacus (Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia (China). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:157-162
Belongs to Orthobittacus according to K. Kopeć et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Orthobittacus abshiricus, Orthobittacus maculosus, Orthobittacus polymitus
Type specimen: CNU-MEC-NN2016101, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2016 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Daohugou (CNU 2016 collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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