Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae
Alternative combination: Promylacris rigida
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 Orthomylacris according to A. Handlirsch 1922
See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920, Scudder 1890 and Scudder 1895
Sister taxa: Orthomylacris alutacea, Orthomylacris analis, Orthomylacris berryi, Orthomylacris contorta, Orthomylacris cordiformis, Orthomylacris delicatula, Orthomylacris franklini, Orthomylacris gurleyi, Orthomylacris hastata, Orthomylacris heeri, Orthomylacris mansfieldi, Orthomylacris mathieui, Orthomylacris northi, Orthomylacris pauperata, Orthomylacris pennsylvaniae, Orthomylacris pittstoniana, Orthomylacris pluteus, Orthomylacris recta, Phthinomylacris medialis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection
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