Insecta - Megasecoptera - Mischopteridae

Alternative combination: Woodwardia longicauda

Synonym: Psilothorax pictus Handlirsch 1919

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 Psilothorax according to F. M. Carpenter 1951

See also Brongniart 1885, Brongniart 1894, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919, Haupt 1941 and Lameere 1917

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

• Psilothorax longicauda: MNHN.F.R51279-R51053, 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.
• Psilothorax pictus: MNHN.F.R51275. 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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