Elisama dignata Wang 1987 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattaria - Blattulidae

Alternative combination: Ctenoblattina dignata

Full reference: W. L. Wang. 1987. Early Mesozoic insects fossils from western Liaoning. Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Western Liaoning 202-222

Belongs to Elisama according to H. Sendi 2025

See also Wang 1987

Sister taxa: Elisama algeriaensis, Elisama arcta, Elisama baeki, Elisama bolzoni, Elisama brevis, Elisama cuboides, Elisama dornellesi, Elisama elongata, Elisama extenuata, Elisama fragmentaria, Elisama globosa, Elisama grandis, Elisama gwanghyeoni, Elisama hindwingnii, Elisama incerta, Elisama kacerovae, Elisama kneri, Elisama minor, Elisama oliveirai, Elisama parallela, Elisama prelistama, Elisama pterostigmata, Elisama scudderi, Elisama simplex, Elisama simplex, Elisama toledoi, Elisama tsaganica, Araripeblatta simplex

Type specimen: Shenyang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources SG159009, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Haifangdonggou, Beipiao City (Shenyang collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian terrestrial mudstone in the Haifanggou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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