Full reference: L. Šmídová and X. J. Lei. 2017. The earliest amber-recorded type cockroach family was aposematic (Blattaria: Blattidae). Cretaceous Research 72:189-199
Parent taxon: Blattodea according to L. Qiu et al. 2020
See also Evangelista et al. 2017, Sendi and Azar 2016 and Šmídová and Lei 2017
Sister taxa: Archimylacridae, Blattoidea agilis, Blattoidea confusa, Blattoidea dictyoneura, Blattoidea excellens, Blattoidea propria, Blattoidea separata, Blattoidea singularis, Blattoidea venusta, Blattulidae, Mesoblattinidae, Mylacridae, Mylacris packardii, Parallelophoridae, Poroblattinidae, Sinogrammitidae, Acadelytridae, Hsuopterites, Sinogramma, Stantonia, Ptiloteuthis, Blattoidea perbrevis, Blattoidea bella, Gerablattina perita, Blattoidea minuta, Blattoidea sellardsiana, Blattoidea acuminata, Neomylacridae, Blattoidea lobata, Xylophagodea, Blattoidea delicula, Blattoidea minima, Sinoblatta, Blattoidea, Etoblattina exigua, Mancusoblattidae, Gerablattina richmondiana, Blattoidea melanderi, Delpuenteblattidae, Proteremidae, Pseudomylacridae, Spiloblattidae, Blattelidae, Blattoidea relicta, Argentinoblattidae, Megalocerca, Neoblattariae
Subtaxa: Balatronis cretacea
Type: Balatronis cretacea
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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