Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Lithomanteidae
Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1890. Note sur quelques insectes fossiles du terrain houiller qui présentent au prothorax des appendices aliformes. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, Huitième Série 2:154-159
Belongs to Lithomantis according to C. Brongniart 1890
See also Brongniart 1894, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919, Handlirsch 1922, Kukalová 1969 and Lameere 1917
Sister taxa: Lithomantis bohemica, Lithomantis carbonarius, Lithomantis meyeri, Lithomantis varius, Hadroneuria heidei, Lithosialis truemani, Lithosialis daviesii, Lithosialis brongniarti
Type specimen: MNHN.F.R51048, an exoskeleton (fore and hind wings, prothoracic lobes, fragment of fore leg). Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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