Mylothrites
| Mylothrites Temporal range: Late Miocene | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae |
| Tribe: | Nymphalini Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Genus: | Mylothrites Scudder, 1875 |
| Species: | M. pluto |
| Binomial name | |
| Mylothrites pluto (Heer, 1850) | |
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Mylothrites pluto is an extinct butterfly known from Late Miocene-aged strata in Öhningen, Germany, at the border between Germany and Switzerland.
Taxonomy
The fossil was originally placed in Vanessa by Oswald Heer, but was then moved to its own genus, Mylothrites, by Samuel Scudder.[1]
References
- ↑ Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. Fossil butterflies. Vol. 1. FW Putnam, 1875.
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