Insecta - Blattaria - Phyloblattidae
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 Xenoblatta according to J. Schneider 1983
Sister taxa: Xenoblatta adjuncta, Xenoblatta alykaevensis, Xenoblatta blatteri, Xenoblatta brevicubitalis, Xenoblatta curta, Xenoblatta curviramosa, Xenoblatta deichmuelleri, Xenoblatta fonsecai, Xenoblatta fraterna, Xenoblatta grosjeani, Xenoblatta incelebrata, Xenoblatta kuznetskiensis, Xenoblatta leptophlebica, Xenoblatta longa, Xenoblatta martynovi, Xenoblatta muetzei, Xenoblatta ornatissima, Xenoblatta parvitatis, Xenoblatta pennsylvanica, Xenoblatta ploetziana, Xenoblatta primaeva, Xenoblatta propria, Xenoblatta pygmaea, Xenoblatta russoma, Xenoblatta simoniana, Xenoblatta tomiensis, Xenoblatta triangularis, Xenoblatta uniformis, Xenoblatta visenda, Friedrichsthalia blatteri
Type specimen: Coll Gurley, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (FMNH Gurley collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Xenoblatta columbiana in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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