Insecta - Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Alternative combination: Promylacris testudo
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. New types of cockroaches from the Carboniferous deposits of the United States. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 4(9):401-415
Belongs to Metachorus according to A. Handlirsch 1922
See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920, Schneider 1983, Scudder 1890 and Scudder 1895
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 38158, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (Columbia University collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Illinois collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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