Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Breyeriidae

Full reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1967. Studies of North American Carboniferous Insects: 5. Paleodictyoptera and Megasecoptera from Illinois and Tennessee, with a Discussion of the Order Sypharopteroidea. Psyche 74:58-83

Belongs to Breyeria according to C. J. Durden 1984

See also Carpenter 1967

Sister taxa: Breyeria barborae, Breyeria bistrata, Breyeria borinensis, Breyeria boulei, Breyeria brauckmanni, Breyeria delruei, Breyeria janseni, Breyeria lachlani, Breyeria limburgica, Breyeria sharovi, Breyeria solida, Breyeria triramosa, Breyeria vrankeni

Type specimen: USNM 158550, a forewing. Its type locality is Peach Tree Gap, Anderson County, which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial siliciclastic in the Pewee Coal Formation of Tennessee.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Peach Tree Gap, Anderson County

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