Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Blattodea
Superfamilia: †Umenocoleoidea
Familia: †Alienopteridae
Genus: †Caputoraptor
Species: †Caputoraptor elegans

Name

Caputoraptor elegans Bai et al., 2018

Distribution

Asia

• Burma
  • Burmese amber

Temporal range: Cretaceous

References

• Bai M., Beutel R.G., Zhang W., Wang S., Hörnig M., Gröhn C., Yan E., Yang X. and Wipfler B. 2018. A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology. 28(3): 438–443. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031 . Reference page. 

Links

Caputoraptor elegans in Paleobiology Database