Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae
Alternative combinations: Anisopus cadaver, Asarcomyia cadaver
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734
Belongs to Sylvicola according to M. WojtoĆ et al. 2018
See also Edwards 1928, Evenhuis 1994 and Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Sylvicola baltica, Sylvicola carolae, Sylvicola fenestralis, Sylvicola harrisi, Sylvicola hoffeinsorum, Sylvicola hooleyi, Sylvicola maculata, Sylvicola prisca, Sylvicola problematica, Sylvicola silibrarius, Sylvicola splendida, Sylvicola thiriona, Lycoria (Neosciara), Lycoria chrysitis
Type specimen: Packard 12, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Green River (Packard Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Green River (Packard Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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