Insecta - Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Alternative combinations: Anthracoblattina ensifera, Elaphroblatta ensifera
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 Anthracoblattina according to A. Nel et al. 2023
See also Belahmira et al. 2019, Brongniart 1894, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920, Handlirsch 1922, Lameere 1917, Meunier 1921 and Schneider 1983
Sister taxa: Anthracoblattina aequa, Anthracoblattina archangelskyi, Anthracoblattina arnhardti, Anthracoblattina deichmuelleriana, Anthracoblattina didyma, Anthracoblattina dresdensis, Anthracoblattina gigantea, Anthracoblattina lebachensis, Anthracoblattina mendesi, Anthracoblattina oliveirai, Anthracoblattina persistens, Anthracoblattina porrecta, Anthracoblattina poryvaikaensis, Anthracoblattina poryvaikensis, Anthracoblattina rueckerti, Anthracoblattina spectabilis, Anthracoblattina striata, Elaphroblatta intermedia, Phauloblatta clathrata
Type specimen: MNHN.F.R51420, 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.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of France (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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