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Opsiomylacris procerus

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Taxonomy
Opsiomylacris procerus was named by Haupt (1952). Its type specimen is MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481382, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Pochwerksgrund near Goldlauter (MLU Halle-Wittenberg coll), which is in an Asselian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Goldlauter Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Opsiomylacris, Opsiomylacris (Opsiomylacris).

It was corrected as Opsiomylacris procera by Haupt (1952), Müller (1975), Schneider (1980).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1952Opsiomylacris procera Haupt
1952Opsiomylacris procerus Haupt p. 244 figs. Pl 40, fig 1; text-figs 2,3
1975Opsiomylacris procera Müller p. 622 figs. 1, 2
1980Opsiomylacris procera Schneider p. 43
1983Opsiomylacris procerus Schneider p. 113

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
familyMylacridae()
genusOpsiomylacris
speciesprocerus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Opsiomylacris procerus Haupt 1952
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Asselian or 298.90000 to 293.52000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Germany (Thüringer Wald) Opsiomylacris procerus (type locality: 128485)