Oxycheilopsis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cicindelidae
Genus: Oxycheilopsis
Cassola & Werner, 2004
Species:
O. cretacicus
Binomial name
Oxycheilopsis cretacicus
Cassola & Werner, 2004

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

  1. "Oxycheilopsis Cassola & Werner, 2004". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. 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


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