Eosacantha Temporal range: Middle Eocene,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Cassidinae |
Tribe: | Notosacanthini |
Genus: | โ Eosacantha Chaboo & Engel, 2009 |
Species: | †E. delocranioides
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Binomial name | |
†Eosacantha delocranioides Chaboo & Engel, 2009
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Eosacantha is an extinct genus of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae and containing a single species Eosacantha delocranioides.[1] The species is known only from the Middle Eocene Parachute Member, part of the Green River Formation, in the Piceance Creek Basin, Garfield County, northwestern Colorado, USA.[1]