Lycocercus goldenbergi Brongniart 1885

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Lycocercidae

Alternative combinations: Dictyoneura goldenbergi, Lithomantis goldenbergi

Synonym: Lycocercus brongniarti Handlirsch 1906

Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1885. Les insectes fossiles des terrains primaires. Coup d'oeil rapide sur la fauna entomologique des terrains paléozoïques. Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Sciences Naturelles de Rouen 21(3):50-68

Belongs to Lycocercus according to J. Kukalová 1969

See also Brongniart 1883, Brongniart 1885, Brongniart 1894, Demoulin 1960, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919, Handlirsch 1922, Lameere 1917 and Laurentiaux 1953

Sister taxon: Lycocercus pictus

Type specimens:

  • Lycocercus goldenbergi: MNHN.F.R52934, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
  • Lycocercus brongniarti: Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll)

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