Biology:Cretamyzidae

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Short description: Extinct family of true bugs

Cretamyzidae
Temporal range: Campanian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Aphidoidea
Family: Cretamyzidae
Heie, 1992

Cretamyzidae is an extinct insect family in the aphid superfamily (Aphidoidea), of the order Hemiptera.[1] It contains the single genus Cretamyzus, known from the Upper Cretaceous of Canada . The type species C. pikei was described from the Upper Campanian Grassy Lake amber from the Foremost Formation.[2] Another indeterminate specimen of the genus was found in amber in the Dinosaur Park Formation associated with a Prosaurolophus dentary.[3]

References

  1. Cretamyzidae at Paleobiology Database
  2. O. E. Heie. 1992. Descriptions, in New aphids in Cretaceous amber from Alberta (Insecta, Homoptera). The Canadian Entomologist 124:1027-1053
  3. McKellar, Ryan C.; Jones, Emma; Engel, Michael S.; Tappert, Ralf; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Muehlenbachs, Karlis; Cockx, Pierre; Koppelhus, Eva B. et al. (2019-11-29). "A direct association between amber and dinosaur remains provides paleoecological insights" (in en). Scientific Reports 9 (1): 17916. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54400-x. ISSN 2045-2322. PMID 31784622. 

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