†Paraprisca grandis Carpenter 1935 (ice crawler)
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Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae
Full reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1935. The Lower Permian insects of Kansas, Part 7: the Order Protoperlaria. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 70:103-146
Belongs to Paraprisca according to S. Y. Storozhenko 1998
See also Carpenter 1939 and Tillyard 1937
Sister taxa: Paraprisca fragilis, Paraprisca solikamskensis, Paraprisca uralica
Type specimen: MCZ 3585, a forewing. Its type locality is Elmo, MCZ 1927 collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (3: Kansas collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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