Petromantis sylvaensis Martynov 1940 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Alternative combinations: Mesochorista sylvaensis, Permochorista sylvaensis

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1940. Permian fossil insects from Chekarda. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 11:1-63

Belongs to Petromantis according to V. G. Novokshonov 1998

See also Martynov 1940, Novokshonov 1993, Novokshonov 1997 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Petromantis dubia, Petromantis dubiosa, Petromantis elegans, Petromantis evansi, Petromantis grandiloqua, Petromantis grandis, 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 udmurtica

Type specimen: PIN 118/126, a wing. Its type locality is Chekarda, Sylva River (PIN collection 118), which is in a Kungurian deltaic siliciclastic in the Koshelevka Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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