Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae
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 Sooblatta according to J. Schneider 1983
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 villeti, Soomylacris strahani, Soomylacris lotharingiae, Soomylacris obesa, Soomylacris pruvosti, Soomylacris lievinensis, Soomylacris burri, Soomylacris gallica, Soomylacris flexuosus
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: there are no occurrences of Sooblatta testudo in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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