Eocoronidae

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Eocoronidae
Temporal range: Carnian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Clade: Aparaglossata
Superorder: Panorpida
(unranked): Amphiesmenoptera
Family: Eocoronidae
Tindale, 1981
Type genus
Eocorona
Tindale, 1981

Eocoronidae is an extinct family of insects from the Carnian age of the Triassic period. It was established in 1981 by the Australian entomologist Norman Tindale. At present, it contains only one species and genus: Eocorona iani . [1]

The taxonomical placement of Eocoronidae is unclear. Originally considered to belong to the order Lepidoptera, it is now assumed to be basal and is classified under Amphiesmenoptera. [2] [3]

Fossils of Eoses triassica , previously classified under the monotypic family Eosetidae and subjectively synonymized by E.F. Reik into the mecopterid species Mesochorista proavita , [4] [5] have been proposed by Tindale to belong to this family. [6]

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