Tarwinia

Tarwinia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Siphonaptera
Family: Tarwiniidae
Huang et al. 2013
Genus: Tarwinia
P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986
Species:
T. australis
Binomial name
Tarwinia australis
P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986

Tarwinia is an extinct genus of stem-group flea known from a single species, T. australis, from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of Victoria, Australia, it is the only member of the family Tarwiniidae, and the only stem-group flea known from the Southern Hemisphere.