†Burmagryllotalpa Wang et al. 2019 (field cricket)
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Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Full reference: H. Wang, X. J. Lei, G. Q. Zhang, C. P. Xu, Y. Fang and H. C. Zhang. 2019. The earliest Gryllotalpinae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Gryllotalpidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 107(104292)
Parent taxon: Pherodactylina according to O. J. Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2024
See also Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2023, Gu et al. 2024 and Wang et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Chunxiania, Pherodactylus
Subtaxa: Burmagryllotalpa longa
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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