Eurydictyon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Archostemata |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Eurydictyon Ponomarenko, 1969 |
Species: | †E. conspicuum
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Binomial name | |
†Eurydictyon conspicuum Ponomarenko, 1969
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Eurydictyon is an extinct genus of beetle in the family Ommatidae which contains a single species, Eurydictyon conspicuum. [1] E. conspicuum lived during the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic, between 189.6 and 183.0 Ma. It measured 18 x 8 mm in length and is known only from specimens found in Kyrgyzstan. [2] Eurydictyon may be closely related to the genus Notocupes. [3] [4]