Corydalites

Corydalites
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Megaloptera
Family: Corydalidae
Genus: †Corydalites
Scudder, 1878
Species:
†C. fecundum
Binomial name
†Corydalites fecundum
Scudder, 1878

Corydalites is an extinct monotypic genus of dobsonfly containing the single species Corydalites fecundum. Fossils have been found in both the US and France.

References

  1. ↑ Martins, Caleb C.; Ardila-Camacho, Adrian; Rivera-Gasperín, Sara Lariza; Oswald, John D.; Liu, Xingyue; Contreras-Ramos, Atilano (2022-04-08). "A world checklist of extant and extinct species of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida)". European Journal of Taxonomy (812): 1727. Bibcode:2022EJTax.812.1727M. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.812.1727. ISSN 2118-9773.