Plesioidischia baentschi Schlechtendal 1906 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Oedischiidae

Full reference: D. H. R. Schlechtendal. 1906. Taxonomic names, in Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640

Belongs to Plesioidischia according to P. Guthörl 1934

See also Handlirsch 1922 and Schlechtendal 1906

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Naturhist Ver. Bonn, 46, a forewing. Its type locality is Nonnweiler near Birkenfeld-Nahe, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Lebacher Schichten Formation of Germany.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Nonnweiler near Birkenfeld-Nahe

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