Protogryllus praeacutus Bode 1953 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Protogryllidae

Full reference: A. Bode. 1953. Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103:1-375

Belongs to Protogryllus according to A. Bode 1953

Sister taxa: Protogryllus (Archaegryllodes), Protogryllus (Protogryllus), Protogryllus fissus, Protogryllus foliolum, Protogryllus formosus, Protogryllus hattorfensis, Protogryllus implicatus, Protogryllus irregularis, Protogryllus laceratus, Protogryllus liadis, Protogryllus major, Protogryllus multoramosus, Protogryllus multovenosus, Protogryllus stenobasis, Protogryllus symmetricus, Protogryllus vicinus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hondelage, Braunschweig (Boreale Zone), which is in a Toarcian offshore mudstone in the Posidonia Shale Formation of Germany

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Hondelage, Braunschweig (Boreale Zone)

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