Menatacridium Piton, 1936

Schubnel, Thomas, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Garrouste, Romain, Hervet, Sophie & Nel, André, 2020, Paleocene of Menat Formation, France, reveals an extraordinary diversity of orthopterans and the last known survivor of a Mesozoic Elcanidae, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (2), pp. 371-385 : 377

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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00676.2019

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scientific name

Menatacridium Piton, 1936
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Genus Menatacridium Piton, 1936 View in CoL

Type species: Menatacridium eocenicum Piton, 1936 ; Menat, Paleocene.

Menatacridium eocenicum Piton, 1936 View in CoL

Holotype: No repository number, currently lost (coll. Louis Piton); a nearly complete tegmen.

Type locality: Historical quarry of Menat , Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France. Type horizon: Middle Paleocene, Menat Basin .

Material.— Holotype only.

Remarks.— This taxon was very poorly described and figured by Piton (1936, 1937, 1940: pl. 19: 1). We can only say that it is a Polyneoptera of uncertain affinities, possibly an Orthoptera , but probably not an Acridoidea .

Stratigraphic and geographic range.— Paleocene, Menat Formation, Menat, France.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

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Menatacridium Piton, 1936

Schubnel, Thomas, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Garrouste, Romain, Hervet, Sophie & Nel, André 2020
2020
Loc

Menatacridium eocenicum

Piton 1936
1936
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