Baissoptera is an
extinctgenus of
snakefly in the
Baissopteridae family which was described by Martynova in 1961. Since 1961, it has been described three times; Carpenter in 1992, Ponomarenko in 1988 and Engel in 2002. According to J. Jepson et al. in 2011, the parent taxon is
Baissopteridae.[1][2] Fossils of the species have been found in Brazil, China, Spain and Russia.[1]
^O. M. Martynova (1961). "Sovremennye i vymershie verblyudki (Insecta, Raphidioptera)" [Recent and extinct snakeflies (Insecta, Raphidioptera)]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 1961 (3): 73–83.
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abYa-nan Lyu; Dong Ren; Xingyue Liu (2017). "Systematic revision of the fossil snakefly family Baissopteridae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with description of a new genus and three new species". Cretaceous Research. 80: 13–26.
doi:
10.1016/j.cretres.2017.08.004.
Baissoptera is an
extinctgenus of
snakefly in the
Baissopteridae family which was described by Martynova in 1961. Since 1961, it has been described three times; Carpenter in 1992, Ponomarenko in 1988 and Engel in 2002. According to J. Jepson et al. in 2011, the parent taxon is
Baissopteridae.[1][2] Fossils of the species have been found in Brazil, China, Spain and Russia.[1]
^O. M. Martynova (1961). "Sovremennye i vymershie verblyudki (Insecta, Raphidioptera)" [Recent and extinct snakeflies (Insecta, Raphidioptera)]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 1961 (3): 73–83.
^
abYa-nan Lyu; Dong Ren; Xingyue Liu (2017). "Systematic revision of the fossil snakefly family Baissopteridae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with description of a new genus and three new species". Cretaceous Research. 80: 13–26.
doi:
10.1016/j.cretres.2017.08.004.