Insecta - Orthoptera - Elcanidae

Full reference: A. V. Gorochov, E. A. Jarzembowski, and R. A. Coram. 2006. Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research 27:641-662

Belongs to Panorpidium according to A. V. Gorochov et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Panorpidium bimaculatum, Panorpidium proximum, Panorpidium sibirica, Panorpidium tesselatum, Elcana liasina, Elcana shurabica, Elcana minima, Elcana (Clathrotermes), Elcana media, Elcana magna, Elcana beyrichi, Elcana phyllophora, Elcana lithophila, Elcana deichmulleri, Elcana longicornis, Elcana minuta, Elcana lata, Elcana geinitzi, Elcana plagiata, Elcana westwoodi

Type specimen: MNEMG 2003/39, a tegmen. Its type locality is Cooden Beach, which is in a Hauterivian delta plain ironstone/claystone in the Lower Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Average measurements (in mm): tegmen length 10.5