Carpentertypus durhami Carpenter 1960

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Alternative combinations: Boltonites durhami, Typus durhami

Full reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1960. Studies on North American Carboniferous Insects: 1. The Protodonata. Psyche 67:98-110

Belongs to Carpentertypus according to J. Prokop and A. Nel 2010

See also Brauckmann and Zessin 1989, Carpenter 1960, Durden 1984, Huang and Nel 2010 and Zessin 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 8758, a wing (Apical Fragments of fore & hindwing). Its type locality is Williams Coal Company Mine, Catoosa, which is in a Yeadonian terrestrial sandstone in the Walden Sandstone Formation of Georgia.

Distribution: found only at Williams Coal Company Mine, Catoosa

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