Insecta - Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Alternative combination: Cydnus mamillanus
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(4):747-776
Belongs to Procydnus according to S. H. Scudder 1890
See also Scudder 1878
Sister taxa: Procydnus devictus, Procydnus divexus, Procydnus eatoni, Procydnus pronus, Procydnus quietus, Procydnus reliquus, Procydnus vesperus
Type specimen: 39, an exoskeleton (poorly preserved). Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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