Petromantis grandis Martynova 1961 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Full reference: O. M. Martynova. 1961. Neuropteroidea, Mecopteroidea, Trichoptera in Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 85:469-593

Belongs to Petromantis according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997

See also Martynova 1961 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Petromantis dubia, Petromantis dubiosa, Petromantis elegans, Petromantis evansi, Petromantis grandiloqua, Petromantis kaltanica, Petromantis karpenkoae, Petromantis latimargo, Petromantis maculipennis, Petromantis martynovi, Petromantis mirabilis, Petromantis oreshnikovae, Petromantis prona, Petromantis rieki, Petromantis robusta, Petromantis rossica, Petromantis sarbalensis, Petromantis sibirica, Petromantis stigma, Petromantis sylvaensis, Petromantis udmurtica

Type specimen: PIN 600/215, a wing. Its type locality is Kaltan, outcrop 1300, bed 7 (PIN collection 600), which is in a Roadian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Mitina Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Kaltan, outcrop 1300, bed 7 (PIN collection 600)

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