Insecta - Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae
Alternative combination: Raphidia elegans
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1907. Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:605-616
Belongs to Megaraphidia according to V. N. Makarkin and S. B. Archibald 2014
See also Carpenter 1936, Cockerell 1907 and Engel 2002
Sister taxa: Megaraphidia antiquissima, Megaraphidia exhumata, Megaraphidia hopkinsi, Megaraphidia klondika, Megaraphidia ootsa
Type specimen: AMNH 35861, a forewing. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 13, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 13
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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