Biology:Retinitus
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Short description: Extinct genus of Dolichopodid flies
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Parathalassiinae |
| Genus: | †Retinitus Negrobov, 1978[1] |
| Species: | †R. nervosus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Retinitus nervosus Negrobov, 1978[1]
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Retinitus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Retinitus nervosus, from the Upper Cretaceous of the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia . The generic name comes from "retinite" (fossil resin), and the specific name comes from the Latin word nervus.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Negrobov, O. P. (1978). "Мухи надсемейства Empididoidea (Diptera) из мелового ретинита Северной Сибири" (in Russian) (PDF). Paleontological Journal 12 (2): 221–228. http://www.bio.vsu.ru/ezoo/negrobov_publikacii/Empididoidea%20.zip.
Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/fossdolicho.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q7316790 entry
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