Rhopalomma

Rhopalomma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ommatidae
Genus: †
Ashman et al., 2015
Species:
†R. stefaniae
Binomial name
†Rhopalomma stefaniae
Ashman et al., 2015

Rhopalomma is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It is known from a single species, Rhopalomma stefaniae described from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) Talbragar fossil locality in New South Wales, Australia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ashman, Lauren G.; Oberprieler, Rolf G.; Ślipiński, Adam (2015-06-26). "Rhopalomma stefaniae gen. et sp. n., the first ommatid beetle from the Upper Jurassic in Australia (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)". Zootaxa. 3980 (1): 136–142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.1.8. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26249943.


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