Insecta - Mecoptera - Pseudopolycentropodidae
Synonym: Pseudopolycentropus prolatipennis Whalley 1985
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1920. Palaeontologie. Handbuch der Entomologie 3:117-208
Belongs to Pseudopolycentropus according to J. Ansorge 2003
See also Ansorge 1996, Handlirsch 1920, Handlirsch 1939, Whalley 1985 and Willmann 1978
Sister taxa: Pseudopolycentropus daohugouensis, Pseudopolycentropus janeannae, Pseudopolycentropus latipennis, Pseudopolycentropus madygenicus, Pseudopolycentropus novokshonovi, Pseudopolycentropus obtusus, Pseudopolycentropus perlaeformis, Pseudopolycentropus triasicus
Type specimens:
- Pseudopolycentropus triangularis: GPI EMAU 123/185, a forewing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Pseudopolycentropus prolatipennis: BMNH In 53915, a forewing. Its type locality is Woodstones, Black Ven, Charmouth (Jackson collection), which is in an Obtusum marine mudstone in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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