Jurassipanorpa
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| Jurassipanorpa Temporal range: Middle Jurassic | |
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| Jurassipanorpa sticta holotype | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Family: | Panorpidae |
| Genus: | †Jurassipanorpa Ding, Shih & Ren, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Jurassipanorpa impunctata Ding, Shih & Ren, 2014 | |
| Species | |
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J. impunctata | |
Jurassipanorpa is a genus of fossil scorpionfly (order Mecoptera) containing two species described in 2014 from the Jiulongshan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. The two species, J. impuctata and J. sticta, lived in the late Middle Jurassic period. Upon description, they were claimed to represent the oldest known representatives of the scorpionfly family Panorpidae, but this was later questioned.[1]
