Platephemera antiqua Scudder 1867 (winged insect)

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1867. Taxonomic names, in On some remains of Palaeozoic insects recently discovered in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Canadian Naturalist 3:202-206

Belongs to Platephemera according to C. J. Durden 1984

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1922, Scudder 1867, Scudder 1868, Scudder 1868, Scudder 1880 and Scudder 1885

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Plant Bed 7, Fern Ledges, Carleton, Saint John, which is in a Westphalian A estuary/bay shale in the Lancaster Formation of Canada

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Plant Bed 7, Fern Ledges, Carleton, Saint John

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