Liberiblattinidae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Blattodea |
Family: | †Liberiblattinidae Vršanský 2002 |
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Liberiblattinidae is an extinct family of cockroaches known from the Jurassic to Cretaceous. Some taxa, like Cryptoblatta and Hydrokhoohydra, are suggested to be semiaquatic.[1] Spongistoma is suggested to be a nectarivore due to its unique sucking/sponging "proboscis" mouthparts.[2] Some authors have suggested that the family is ancestral to Mantodea.[3]
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Indeterminate juveniles are also known from the Aptian Crato Formation of Brazil, the Aalenian Bakhar Formation of Mongolia,[1] and the Santonian Taimyr amber of Russia.[5]