Mesojassoides

Mesojassoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Errhomeninae
Tribe: Bathysmatophorini
Genus: †
Oman, 1937
Species:
†M. gigantea
Binomial name
†Mesojassoides gigantea
Oman, 1937

Mesojassoides is a genus of extinct leaf hopper from the Late Cretaceous, approximately 70 - 66 million years ago, Fox Hills Formation.[1] The genus contains a single species Mesojassoides gigantea, described from a fore wing found in 1932 by C.H. Dane and W. G. Pierce in Adams County, Colorado.[1] Described by Paul W. Oman in 1937, the genus was named for the similarity in vein structure between the holotype and the modern genus Jassus.[1] The holotype specimen, National Museum of Natural History #75521, is 12 millimetres (0.47 in) long and nearly complete, missing the clavus and a small section of the costal margin.[1] The specimen indicates M. gigantea was similar in size to the largest modern leaf hopper species.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Oman, PW (January 1937). "Fossil Hemiptera from the Fox Hills Sandstone (Cretaceous) of Colorado". Journal of Paleontology. 11 (1): 37–38.


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