Insecta - Orthoptera - Oedischiidae

Full reference: H. Bolton. 1922. A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures 81-156

Parent taxon: Oedischiidae according to H. Bolton 1922

See also Carpenter 1992

Sister taxa: Afroedischia, Anelcana, Elcanoedischiinae, Iasvia, Kamaites, Mezenoedischiinae, Nobloedischia, Oedischiinae, Plesioidischia, Scalaeoptera, Tcholmanvissia dubia, Tcholmanvissiinae

Subtaxa: Xeroptera obtusata

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Type: Xeroptera obtusata

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Coseley, near Dudley (Johnson coll) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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