Myriapoda - Chilognatha - Xyloiulidae
Alternative combination: Xylobius frustulentus
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. New Carboniferous Myriapoda from Illinois. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 4:417-442
Belongs to Xyloiulus according to R. L. Hoffman 1963
See also Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Xyloiulus bairdi, Xyloiulus mazonus, Xyloiulus pstrossi, Xyloiulus sellatus, Xyloiulus sigillariae, Xylobius similis, Xylobius platti, Xylobius fractus, Xylobius renieri
Type specimen: USNM PAL37995. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Illinois collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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