†Blattidium fragile Heer 1868 (cockroach)
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Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Full reference: O. Heer. 1868. Fossile Insecten von Nordgrönland. Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora der Polarländer 1:129-130
Belongs to Blattidium according to A. Handlirsch 1907
See also Heer 1868 and Heer 1883
Sister taxa: Blattidium molossus, Blattidium symyrus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Atanekerdluk (1850s collections), which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Atanekerdluk (1850s collections)
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