Cascoplecia
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Cascopleciidae
Poinar Jr., 2010
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Cascoplecia
Poinar Jr., 2010
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C. insolitis
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| Cascoplecia insolitis Poinar Jr., 2010
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Cascoplecia insolitis, commonly known as the unicorn fly,[1] is an extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. The type specimen was found in Burmese amber.[1] George Poinar, Jr., who described this fossil, coined a new family name for it – Cascopleciidae. One of the defining characteristics of Cascoplecia are three ocelli raised on an extended horn-like protuberance (hence its common name).
