Tarwinia
Extinct genus of flea
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Tarwinia is an extinct genus of stem-group flea known from a single species, T. australis, from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of Victoria, Australia, it is the only member of the family Tarwiniidae, and the only stem-group flea known from the Southern Hemisphere.[1][2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Siphonaptera |
| Family: | †Tarwiniidae Huang et al. 2013 |
| Genus: | †Tarwinia P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986 |
| Species: | †T. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tarwinia australis P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986 | |