Palaeolepidopterix | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | † Eolepidopterigidae |
Genus: | †
Palaeolepidopterix Kozlov, 1989 |
Species: | †P. aurea
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Binomial name | |
†Palaeolepidopterix aurea Kozlov, 1989
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Palaeolepidopterix is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Palaeolepidopterix aurea. [1] It is known from the Late Jurassic ( Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.