Cascoplecia Temporal range:
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holotype fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Superfamily: | Bibionoidea |
Family: | Bibionidae |
Genus: | †
Cascoplecia Poinar, 2010 |
Species: | †C. insolitis
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Binomial name | |
†Cascoplecia insolitis Poinar, 2010
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Cascoplecia insolitis, rarely known as the unicorn fly, [1] is an extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. The type specimen was found in Burmese amber. [1] George Poinar Jr., who described the fossil, placed the genus into a new family Cascopleciidae. One of the defining characteristics of Cascoplecia is the presence of three ocelli raised on an extended, horn-like protuberance. The distinctiveness of the family was questioned by other authors, and the genus has been subsequently transferred to the family Bibionidae. [2] [3]
Cascoplecia Temporal range:
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holotype fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Superfamily: | Bibionoidea |
Family: | Bibionidae |
Genus: | †
Cascoplecia Poinar, 2010 |
Species: | †C. insolitis
|
Binomial name | |
†Cascoplecia insolitis Poinar, 2010
|
Cascoplecia insolitis, rarely known as the unicorn fly, [1] is an extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. The type specimen was found in Burmese amber. [1] George Poinar Jr., who described the fossil, placed the genus into a new family Cascopleciidae. One of the defining characteristics of Cascoplecia is the presence of three ocelli raised on an extended, horn-like protuberance. The distinctiveness of the family was questioned by other authors, and the genus has been subsequently transferred to the family Bibionidae. [2] [3]