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Mylacris angusta

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Taxonomy
Lithomylacris angustum was named by Scudder (1879). It is an impression. Its type locality is Port Griffith railway cut, near Pittston, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial siliciclastic in the Llewellyn Formation of Pennsylvania.

It was corrected as Lithomylacris angusta by Scudder (1895), Handlirsch (1906) and Handlirsch (1906); it was recombined as Mylacris angusta by Durden (1969).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Lithomylacris angustum Scudder p. 48 figs. Pl 5 figs 2, 3
1885Lithomylacris angustum Scudder p. 754 fig. 931
1895Lithomylacris angusta Scudder p. 50
1906Lithomylacris angusta Handlirsch p. 270 figs. Pl XXVIII fig 15
1969Mylacris angusta Durden p. 1167

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
familyMylacridae()
genusMylacris
speciesangusta()

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.

Mylacris angusta Scudder 1879
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Westphalian D or 309.80000 to 307.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian D309.8 - 307.5USA (Pennsylvania) Lithomylacris angustum (type locality: 122525)