Dictyoneura higginsii Handlirsch 1906 (winged insect)

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae

Alternative combinations: Palaeodictyopteron higginsi, Sherborniella higginsii

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640

Belongs to Dictyoneura according to H. Bolton 1921

See also Bolton 1916, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919 and Handlirsch 1922

Sister taxa: Dictyoneura kemperi, Dictyoneura libelluloides, Dictyoneura nigra, Dictyoneura rugosa, Dictyophlebia

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ravenhead Railway cutting near St. Helens, which is in a Westphalian A interdistributary bay mudstone in the Lancashire middle Coal Measure Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ravenhead Railway cutting near St. Helens

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