Polycreagra elegans Handlirsch 1906 (winged insect)

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Polycreagridae

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Revision of American Paleozoic insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1441):661-820

Belongs to Polycreagra according to C. J. Durden 1984

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919 and Handlirsch 1922

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 38705/6, a wing. Its type locality is Cranston, which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial siliciclastic in the Rhode Island Formation of Rhode Island.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cranston

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