Metaxys fossa Scudder 1895

Insecta - Dicondylia - Bradyblattidae

Alternative combination: Etoblattina fossa

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 124:1-176

Belongs to Metaxys according to A. Handlirsch 1922

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920 and Scudder 1895

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Coll Huston 182, a tegmen (fragment). Its type locality is Willis Creek near Steubenville, which is in a Stephanian terrestrial shale in the Conemaugh Formation of Ohio.

Distribution: found only at Willis Creek near Steubenville

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