Eocorona


Eocorona is an extinct genus of amphiesmenopteran from the Middle Triassic of Australia. It contains only one species, Eocorona iani, and is the type genus of the family Eocoronidae.

Discovery

Eocorona iani was first described by the Australian anthropologist and entomologist Norman Tindale in 1980. The fossil was composed of a nearly complete forewing and a hindwing tentatively interpreted as belonging to the same species. It was recovered from Mount Crosby, Queensland, Australia. It dates from the Carnian age of the Middle Triassic.

Taxonomy

Eocorona iani is the only species in the genus Eocorona and the family Eocoronidae. Tindale originally described Eocorona iani as a butterfly. This has been challenged by a number of other authors.
Most recently, Minet et al. considered Eocorona a 'true' member of the superorder Amphiesmenoptera, neither lepidopteran nor trichopteran.