Oculephemera mazhenxingi Zheng and Chen 2024 (mayfly)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Oculephemeridae

Full reference: X. H. Y. Zheng and Z. T. Chen. 2024. Oculephemeridae n. fam., a new mayfly family from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Historical Biology 36:534-540

Belongs to Oculephemera according to X. H. Y. Zheng and Z. T. Chen 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CZT-EPH-MA3, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CZT Chen amber/Jiangsu University collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CZT Chen amber/Jiangsu University collection)

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