Meganeurula selysii Brongniart 1894 (griffinfly)

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Alternative combinations: Meganeura selysi, Meganeura selysii

Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1894. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes. Thèses Présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris 821:1-494

Belongs to Meganeurula according to A. Nel et al. 2018

See also Brauckmann and Zessin 1989, Brongniart 1894, Carpenter 1943, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1922 and Lameere 1917

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN.F.R52939, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll)

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