Mesojassoides

Mesojassoides is a genus of extinct leaf hopper from the Late Cretaceous, approximately 70 - 66 million years ago, Fox Hills Formation.[1] The genus contains a single species Mesojassoides gigantea, described from a fore wing found in 1932 by C.H. Dane and W. G. Pierce in Adams County, Colorado.[1] Described by Paul W. Oman in 1937, the genus was named for the similarity in vein structure between the holotype and the modern genus Jassus.[1] The holotype specimen, National Museum of Natural History #75521, is 12 millimetres (0.47 in) long and nearly complete, missing the clavus and a small section of the costal margin.[1] The specimen indicates M. gigantea was similar in size to the largest modern leaf hopper species.[1]

Mesojassoides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Superfamily:
Membracoidea
Family:
Cicadellidae
Genus:
โ€ Mesojassoides

Oman, 1937
Species:
M. gigantea
Binomial name
Mesojassoides gigantea
Oman, 1937

References
  1. Oman, PW (January 1937). "Fossil Hemiptera from the Fox Hills Sandstone (Cretaceous) of Colorado". Journal of Paleontology. 11 (1): 37โ€“38.


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