Mesoptilus dolloi Lameere 1917

Insecta - Paoliida - Anthracoptilidae

Alternative combination: Stenoneurella dolloi

Synonym: Stenoneurella fayoliana Handlirsch 1919 [objective synonym]

Full reference: A. Lameere. 1917. Revision sommaire des insectes fossiles du Stéphanien de Commentry. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 23:141-200

Belongs to Mesoptilus according to Z. Y. Guan et al. 2016

See also Béthoux and Wieland 2009, Handlirsch 1919, Handlirsch 1922, Handlirsch 1937 and Lameere 1917

Sister taxon: Mesoptilus carpenteri

Type specimens:

  • Mesoptilus dolloi: MNHN-F-R51159, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
  • Stenoneurella fayoliana: MNHN-F-R51159, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN later coll)

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