Pteridomylacris paradoxa Handlirsch 1906 (winged insect)

Insecta - Dicondylia - Pteridomylacridae

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Revision of American Paleozoic insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1441):661-820

Belongs to Pteridomylacris according to A. Handlirsch 1920

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906 and Schneider 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 38733, a tegmen. Its type locality is Fishing Creek gap, Sharp Mountain, Tremont, which is in a Westphalian C/Westphalian D terrestrial siliciclastic in Pennsylvania.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lorberry gap, Sharp Mountain, Tremont

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