Oxycheilopsis
Appearance
Oxycheilopsis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cicindelidae |
Genus: | †Oxycheilopsis Cassola & Werner, 2004 |
Species: | †O. cretacicus
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Binomial name | |
†Oxycheilopsis cretacicus Cassola & Werner, 2004
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Oxycheilopsis is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Cicindelidae, containing only one known species, Oxycheilopsis cretacicus .[1] It is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Santana Formation of Brazil.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Oxycheilopsis Cassola & Werner, 2004". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ F. Cassola and K. Werner. 2004. A fossil tiger beetle specimen from the Brazilian Mesozoic: Oxycheilopsis cretacicus n. gen., n. sp. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 94:75-81