Eocorona
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| (unranked): | Amphiesmenoptera |
| Family: | †Eocoronidae |
| Genus: | †Eocorona Tindale, 1981 |
| Species: | †E. iani
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| Binomial name | |
| †Eocorona iani Tindale, 1981
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Eocorona is an extinct genus of amphiesmenopteran from the Middle Triassic of Australia. It contains only one species, Eocorona iani, and is the type genus of the family Eocoronidae.[1]
Discovery
Eocorona iani was first described by the Australian anthropologist and entomologist Norman Tindale in 1980. The fossil was composed of a nearly complete forewing and a hindwing tentatively interpreted as belonging to the same species. It was recovered from Mount Crosby, Queensland, Australia. It dates from the Carnian age (228.0 – 216.5 million years ago) of the Middle Triassic.[2]
Taxonomy
Eocorona iani is the only species in the genus Eocorona and the family Eocoronidae. Tindale originally described Eocorona iani as a butterfly (order Lepidoptera). This has been challenged by a number of other authors.[3][4]
Most recently, Minet et al. (2010) considered Eocorona a 'true' member of the superorder Amphiesmenoptera, neither lepidopteran (butterflies and moths) nor trichopteran (caddisflies).[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Eocorona Tindale, 1980". Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species, Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ^ Norman B. Tindale (1980). "Origin of the Lepidoptera, with Description of a New Mid-Triassic Species and Notes on the Origin of the Butterfly Stem" (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 34 (3). The Lepidopterists' Society, Peabody Museum of Natural History: 263–285. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ^ Niels P. Kristensen (1998). Handbuch der Zoologie: eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches. Walter de Gruyter. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-11-015704-8.
- ^ I. F. B. Common (1990). Moths of Australia. BRILL. p. 76. ISBN 978-90-04-09227-3.
- ^ Joël Minet; Di-Ying Huang; Hao Wu; André Nel (2010). "Early Mecopterida and the systematic position of the Microptysmatidae (Insecta: Endopterygota)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2). Société Entomologique de France: 262–270. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697667. Retrieved July 14, 2011.