Tarwinia

Tarwinia
Temporal range: Aptian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Siphonaptera
Family: †Tarwiniidae
Huang et al. 2013
Genus: †Tarwinia
P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986
Species:
†T. australis
Binomial name
†Tarwinia australis
P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986

Tarwinia is an extinct genus of stem-group flea known from a single species, T. australis, from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of Victoria, Australia, it is the only member of the family Tarwiniidae, and the only stem-group flea known from the Southern Hemisphere.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986. Invertebrates, mainly insects, from the freshwater, Lower Cretaceous, Koonwarra Fossil Bed (Korumburra Group), South Gippsland, Victoria. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 3:111-205
  2. ^ Huang, Diying (January 2015). "Tarwinia australis (Siphonaptera: Tarwiniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Koonwarra fossil bed: Morphological revision and analysis of its evolutionary relationship". Cretaceous Research. 52: 507–515. Bibcode:2015CrRes..52..507H. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.03.018.