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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadellidae |
| Subfamily: | Errhomeninae |
| Tribe: | Bathysmatophorini |
| Genus: | † Mesojassoides Oman, 1937 |
| Species: | †M. gigantea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Mesojassoides gigantea Oman, 1937 | |
Mesojassoides is a genus of extinct leaf hopper from the Late Cretaceous, approximately 70 - 66 million years ago, Fox Hills Formation. [1] The genus contains a single species Mesojassoides gigantea, described from a fore wing found in 1932 by C.H. Dane and W. G. Pierce in Adams County, Colorado. [1] Described by Paul W. Oman in 1937, the genus was named for the similarity in vein structure between the holotype and the modern genus Jassus . [1] The holotype specimen, National Museum of Natural History #75521, is 12 millimetres (0.47 in) long and nearly complete, missing the clavus and a small section of the costal margin. [1] The specimen indicates M. gigantea was similar in size to the largest modern leaf hopper species. [1]
