Paratropes fossilis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Blattodea |
Family: | Ectobiidae |
Genus: | Paratropes |
Species: | †P. fossilis
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Binomial name | |
†Paratropes fossilis Vršanský & Anisyutkin, 2008
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Paratropes fossilis is an extinct species of cockroach within the family Ectobiidae that lived during the Cretaceous period.[1] The holotype is an isolated right tegmen 24 millimeters in length.[2] The type locality is in the Gerofit Locality within the Ora Formation located in Israel.[3]