Metacheliphlebia elongata Scudder 1885 (winged insect)

Insecta - Protorthoptera

Alternative combination: Cheliphlebia elongata

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1885. Palaeodictyoptera; or the affinities and classification of Paleozoic Hexapoda. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3(11):319-351

Belongs to Metacheliphlebia according to A. Handlirsch 1922

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919 and Scudder 1885

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection

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