Palaeolepidopterix
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Palaeolepidopterix | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | †Eolepidopterigidae |
Genus: | †Palaeolepidopterix Kozlov, 1989 |
Species: | †P. aurea
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Binomial name | |
†Palaeolepidopterix aurea Kozlov, 1989
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Palaeolepidopterix is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Palaeolepidopterix aurea.[1] It is known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
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- Micropterigidae
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Late Jurassic insects
- Jurassic insects of Asia
- Monotypic moth genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1989
- Prehistoric insect genera
- Monotypic prehistoric animal genera
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