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(Redirected from Tarwiniidae) Extinct genus of flea

Tarwinia
Temporal range: Aptian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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.

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.
Taxon identifiers
Tarwinia australis
Tarwinia
Tarwiniidae
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