Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Breyeriidae
Alternative combination: Megaptilus brodiei
Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1894. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes. Thèses Présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris 821:1-494
Belongs to Megaptiloides according to A. Handlirsch 1922
See also Brongniart 1894, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919 and Lameere 1917
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN.F.R51133, a wing. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll)
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