Baissomantidae
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | †Baissomantidae Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 |
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Baissomantidae is an extinct family of primitive mantises known from the Cretaceous period. There are two known genera and three species, which are Baissomantis, of which the species are Baissomantis maculata & B. picta, known from the Early Cretaceous Zaza Formation of Buryatia, Russia,[1] and Labradormantis, which has only one species, Labradormantis guilbaulti from the mid Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Redmond Formation of Labrador, Canada. They are amongst the most primitive mantises known, only more advanced than Santanmantis.[2]
References
- ↑ V. G. Gratshev and V. V. Zherikhin. 1993. New Fossil Mantids (Insecta, Mantida [Sic]). Paleontological Journal 27(1A):148-165
- ↑ Demers‐Potvin, Alexandre V.; Larsson, Hans C.E.; Cournoyer, Mario; Béthoux, Olivier (January 2021). "Wing morphology of a new Cretaceous prayin g mantis solves the phylogenetic jigsaw of early‐diverging extant lineages". Systematic Entomology. 46 (1): 205–223. doi:10.1111/syen.12457. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 231391397.