Synneuron eomontana Amorim and Greenwalt 2020 (fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Canthyloscelidae

Full reference: D. D. S. Amorim and D. E. Greenwalt. 2020. Cretaceous and Eocene fossils of the rare extant genus Synneuron Lundstrom (Diptera: Canthyloscledidae): evidence of a true Pangean clade. Cladistics 36:413-423

Belongs to Synneuron according to D. D. S. Amorim and D. E. Greenwalt 2020

Sister taxon: Synneuron jelli

Type specimen: USNM 722159, a wing. Its type locality is Disbrow Creek, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn), which is in a Lutetian lacustrine - large shale in the Kishenehn Formation of Montana.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Disbrow Creek, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn)

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