Cretomicrophorus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia, France and the United States. The generic name is a combination of the Latin word creta ("chalk") and the generic name Microphorus.[1]
| Cretomicrophorus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Parathalassiinae |
| Genus: | †Cretomicrophorus Negrobov, 1978[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Cretomicrophorus rohdendorfi | |
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Jantardachia Zherichin, 1978 | |
Species edit
The genus contains three species:
- †Cretomicrophorus novemundus Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999[2] – New Jersey amber, Turonian
- †Cretomicrophorus piolencensis Nel, Garrouste & Daugeron, 2017[3] – Piolenc amber, France, Santonian
- †Cretomicrophorus rohdendorfi Negrobov, 1978[1] – Taymyr amber, Coniacian/Santonian
References edit
- ^ a b c d Negrobov, O. P. (1978). Мухи надсемейства Empididoidea (Diptera) из мелового ретинита Северной Сибири [Flies of the Superfamily Empidioidea (Diptera) from Cretaceous Retinite in Northern Siberia]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 1978 (2): 81–90. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ Grimaldi, David A.; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (1999). "Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 239: 1–124. hdl:2246/1583.
- ^ Nel, André; Garrouste, Romain; Daugeron, Christophe (2017). "Two new long-legged flies in the Santonian amber of France (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 69: 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.08.009. (PDF given is the manuscript version)
Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.
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