†Pherodactylus Poinar et al. 2020 (grasshopper)
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Insecta - Orthoptera - Pseudogryllotalpidae
Full reference: G. Poinar, Y. N. Su, and A. E. Brown. 2020. A new genus of crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Biosis: Biological Systems 1:33-38
Parent taxon: Pseudogryllotalpidae according to J. Gu et al. 2024
See also Cadena-CastaƱeda et al. 2023 and Poinar et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Burmagryllotalpa, Chunxiania, Petilus, Pseudogryllotalpa, Tresdigitus, Unidigitus
Subtaxa: Pherodactylus micromorphus
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)
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