Plesioblattogryllus magnificus Huang et al. 2008 (ice crawler)

Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Plesioblattogryllidae

Full reference: D. Y. Huang, A. Nel, and J. F. Petrulevičius. 2008. New evolutionary evidence of Grylloblattida from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, north-east China (Insecta, Polyneoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152:17-24

Belongs to Plesioblattogryllus according to Y. Y. Cui et al. 2023

See also Huang et al. 2008 and Storozhenko and Aristov 2014

Sister taxa: Plesioblattogryllus aristovi, Plesioblattogryllus qianae

Type specimen: NIGP 133701, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daohugou (NIGP collection)

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