Asemoblatta mazona Scudder 1882

Insecta - Blattodea - Archimylacridae

Alternative combination: Etoblattina mazona

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1882. A new and unusually perfect Carboniferous cockroach from Mazon Creek, Ill. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 21:391-396

Belongs to Asemoblatta according to A. Handlirsch 1922

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920, Schneider 1983, Scudder 1882, Scudder 1895, Sellards 1903 and Sellards 1904

Sister taxa: Asemoblatta brongniartiana, Asemoblatta danielsi, Asemoblatta glamorgana, Asemoblatta pennsylvanica

Type specimen: YPM 221077, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (Pike collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Illinois collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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