Protomyrmeleon jurassicus Nel 1991 (winged insect)

Insecta - Dicondylia - Protomyrmeleontidae

Full reference: A. Nel. 1991. Redescription de la Libellule fossile du Jurassique supérieur ? Malmagrion eichstaettense (Hagen, 1862) (Odonatoptera, Odonata, Archizygoptera). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 96(5):433-442

Belongs to Protomyrmeleon according to A. Nel 1991

Sister taxa: Protomyrmeleon anglicanus, Protomyrmeleon angustovenosus, Protomyrmeleon brunonis, Protomyrmeleon cretacicus, Protomyrmeleon grandis, Protomyrmeleon grasselensis, Protomyrmeleon handlirschi, Protomyrmeleon karatauensis, Protomyrmeleon kazakhstanensis, Protomyrmeleon pascholdi, Protomyrmeleon pumilio, Protomyrmeleon quadriordinum

Type specimen: NMW 1985/26/1, an exoskeleton (poorly Preserved). Its type locality is Eichstätt, Solnhofen (Naturhistorischen Museum Wien collection), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Eichstätt, Solnhofen (Naturhistorischen Museum Wien collection)

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