Oxycheilopsis
Extinct genus of beetles
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Oxycheilopsis is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Cicindelidae, containing only one known species, Oxycheilopsis cretacicus .[1] It is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Santana Formation of Brazil.[2]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Cicindelidae |
| Genus: | †Oxycheilopsis Cassola & Werner, 2004 |
| Species: | †O. cretacicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Oxycheilopsis cretacicus Cassola & Werner, 2004 | |