Paraboltonia macroptera Bolton 1916

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera

Alternative combination: Palaeomantis macroptera

Full reference: H. Bolton. 1916. On some insects from the British coal measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 72:43-62

Belongs to Paraboltonia according to A. Handlirsch 1922

See also Bolton 1916, Bolton 1921 and Prokop et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

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.

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

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