Petracloeon, Sroka & Gattolliat, 2025

Sroka, Pavel & Gattolliat, Jean-Luc, 2025, The first mayfly (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from Late Cretaceous amber of North Carolina, USA, Fossil Record 28 (1), pp. 125-132 : 125-132

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e143974

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:21CCCB31-D8CD-4DB4-9AE3-1098513570F0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15183692

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4FEC1CA3-ED33-5954-B874-73E021E93A10

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by Pensoft

scientific name

Petracloeon
status

gen. nov.

Genus Petracloeon gen. nov.

Type species.

Petracloeon carolinensis gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

As for the type species.

Etymology.

The new genus is dedicated to Petra Sroková, the wife of PS. Additionally, the holotype represents a specimen preserved in a stone, and “ Petra ” is derived from a Greek word for “ stone ”.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

SubClass

Pterygota

InfraClass

Hydropalaeoptera

Order

Ephemeroptera

Family

Baetidae