Soomylacris burri Bolton 1912 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Synonym: Soomylacris truncata Bolton 1934

Full reference: H. Bolton. 1912. Insect-remains from the Midland and South-Eastern coal measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 68:310-323

Belongs to Soomylacris according to H. Bolton 1922

See also Bolton 1934 and Jarzembowski and Schneider 2007

Sister taxa: Sooblatta ampla, Sooblatta boltoniana, Sooblatta burri, Sooblatta deanensis, Sooblatta emersoni, Sooblatta jacobsi, Sooblatta lanceolata, Sooblatta nodulata, Sooblatta ovata, Sooblatta stephanensis, Sooblatta sterzeli, Sooblatta strahani, Sooblatta testudo, Sooblatta villeti, Soomylacris flexuosus, Soomylacris obesa, Soomylacris lievinensis, Soomylacris gallica, Soomylacris pruvosti, Soomylacris strahani, Soomylacris lotharingiae

Type specimens:

  • Soomylacris burri: Its type locality is Barfreston Boring, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial shale in the United Kingdom
  • Soomylacris truncata: Its type locality is Pentre Colliery, Landore, which is in a Westphalian D delta plain ironstone in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Pentre Colliery, Landore

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