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Cretophotina

Insecta - Mantodea

Taxonomy

Cretophotina was named by Gratshev and Zherikhin (1993). Its type is Cretophotina santanensis.

It was assigned to Mantodea by Grimaldi (2003), Vršanský (2005); and to Chaeteessidae by Gratshev and Zherikhin (1993), Lee (2014).

Species

C. mongolica, C. santanensis (type species), C. selenginensis, C. serotina, C. tristriata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1993	Cretophotina Gratshev and Zherikhin p. 150
2003	Cretophotina Grimaldi
2005	Cretophotina Vršanský p. 166
2014	Cretophotina Lee

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017

Rank	Name	Author
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
—	Holopandictyoptera
superorder	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Mantodea	Burmeister 1838
genus	Cretophotina

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Cretophotina Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993

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†Cretophotina mongolica Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993

†Cretophotina santanensis Lee 2014

†Cretophotina selenginensis Vršanský 2002

†Cretophotina serotina Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993

†Cretophotina tristriata Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Barremian to the top of the Turonian or 125.77000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Barremian	125.77 - 121.4	Mongolia (Selenginskij)	C. selenginensis (123425) C. sp. (117954)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Mongolia	C. mongolica (103657 113355 113356 113358 113359 121713 125194 138924 155551)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Russian Federation (Buryatia)	C. sp. (105969) C. tristriata (122549 122552)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Brazil (Ceará)	C. santanensis (122557)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Kazakhstan	C. serotina (103274)