Tarwinia

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.^[1][2]

Tarwinia Temporal range: Aptian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
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