Cretolepinotus tankei Cockx et al. 2020 (granary booklouse)

Insecta - Psocodea - Trogiidae

Full reference: P. Cockx, R. McKellar, R. Tappert, M. J. Vavrek, and K. Muehlenbachs. 2020. Bonebed amber as a new source of paleontological data: The case of the Pipestone Creek deposit (Upper cretaceous), Alberta, Canada. Gondwana Research 81:378-389

Belongs to Cretolepinotus according to P. Cockx et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMP 86.55.268, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Pipestone Creek amber, which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Wapiti Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Pipestone Creek amber

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