Gracilepteryx
| Gracilepteryx Temporal range: Late Aptian
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| Family: | †Eolepidopterigidae
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| Genus: | †Gracilepteryx Martins-Neto & Vulcano 1989
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| Species: | †G. pulchra
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| †Gracilepteryx pulchra Martins-Neto & Vulcano 1989
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Gracilepteryx is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Gracilepteryx pulchra, which is known from the Late Aptian Crato Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.[1]
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- Eolepidopterigoidea
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Cretaceous insects
- Aptian life
- Early Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Crato Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1989
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