Araripephasma reliquum Mendes et al. 2019 (stick insect)

Insecta - Phasmatodea

Alternative combination: Eoproscopia reliquum

Full reference: M. Mendes, S. M. O. Lopes de Vasconcelos, and F. I. Bezerra Oliveira. 2019. A new fossil stick grasshopper (Proscopioidea: Proscopiidae) from the Crato Formation of Brazil. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ 42:437-443

Belongs to Araripephasma according to V. M. Ghirotto et al. 2022

See also Mendes et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LP/UFC CRT 2698, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Triunfo Quarry, Crato (LP/UFC collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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