Petrablattina ovata Scudder 1895

Insecta - Dicondylia - Petrablattinidae

Alternative combinations: Etoblattina ovata, Phyloblatta ovata

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 Petrablattina according to C. J. Durden 1969

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920, Handlirsch 1922 and Scudder 1895

Sister taxon: Petrablattina wemmetsweilerensis

Type specimen: USNM 38201, a thorax (fragment). Its type locality is Cassville, which is in an Asselian terrestrial shale in the Cassville Shales Formation of West Virginia.

Distribution: found only at Cassville

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