†Laticephalana liuyani Luo et al. 2021 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Full reference: C. H. Luo, R. G. Beutel, C. P. Xu and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2021. †Laticephalana liuyani gen. et sp. nov., a new bizarre roachoid of †Umenocoleidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 132:469-478
Belongs to Laticephalana according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022
See also Luo et al. 2021
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: RPX19001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Ruipoxuan Amber Museum coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Ruipoxuan Amber Museum coll)
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