Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: N. Oyama, H. Yukawa, and T. Imai. 2022. New cockroach assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, Japan. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaeozoology - Stratigraphy 321:37-52

Belongs to Petropterix according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022

See also Oyama et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Petropterix alexeevi, Petropterix koreaensis, Petropterix kukalovae, Petropterix mirabilis, Petropterix sibirix

Type specimen: FPDM-I-1554-1, a forewing. Its type locality is Site 1, Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, which is in an Aptian fluvial siliciclastic in the Kitadani Formation of Japan.

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Site 1, Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.