Renphasma
Appearance
Renphasma Temporal range:
| |
---|---|
Holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Phasmatodea |
Family: | †Susumaniidae |
Subfamily: | †Susumaniinae |
Genus: | †Renphasma Nel & Delfosse, 2011 |
Species: | †R. sinica
|
Binomial name | |
†Renphasma sinica Nel & Delfosse, 2011
|
Renphasma is an extinct genus of stick insect which existed in what is now China during the early Cretaceous period.[1] It was named by André Nel and Emmanuel Delfosse in 2011, and the type species is Renphasma sinica, found in the early Aptian aged Yixian Formation.[1] The generic name refers to Dr. Ren Dong, while the specific name refers to Sinica, the Latin name for China.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c André Nel & Emmanuel Delfosse (2011). "A new Chinese Mesozoic stick insect". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (2): 429–432. doi:10.4202/app.2009.1108.