Jurassonurus

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Jurassonurus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Superfamily: Baetoidea
Family: Siphlonuridae
Genus: Jurassonurus
Species:
J. amoenus
Binomial name
Jurassonurus amoenus

Jurassonurus is an extinct insect genus of mayflies (Ephemeroptera). This genus has only one member and that member has been scientifically named Jurassonurus amoenus which lived during the Middle Jurassic period 164.7 million to 155.7 million years ago in the Jiulongshan formation, Daohugou Village, Shantou Township, Ningcheng country, Inner mongolia, China. [1]

Taxomany

The genus parent taxon is Siphlonuridae which itself is in the clade Tridentiseta [2] which is part of the clade Ephemeroptera (Mayflies). Jurassonurus has many sister taxonomic clade which are as listed: Bolbonyx, Albisca, Mogzonurus, Triassonurus, Olgisca, Australurus, Cheirolgisca, Cretoneta, Dulcimanna, and many more. [3]

Reference

  1. ↑ Huang, Jian-Dong; Ren, Dong; Sinitshenkova, Nina D.; Shih, Chung-Kun (April 3, 2008). "New fossil mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China" . Insect Science. 15 (2): 193–198. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2008.00200.x. ISSN   1672-9609. S2CID   86723061.
  2. ↑ "Fossilworks: Siphlonuridae". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  3. ↑ "Fossilworks: Jurassonurus". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 2023-10-24.
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