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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4712965	https://www.gbif.org/species/4712965
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	179342	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179342

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mylacridae : Mylacris

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mylacridae : Mylacris

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Blattodea	(Latreille 1810)
family	Mylacridae
genus	Mylacris	Scudder 1868

Scientific Name

Mylacris Scudder, 1868

Name Published In

Geol. Surv. Illinois, 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1879
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated without evidence	Scudder, 1886
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1893
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Sellards, 1904
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Paleoblattidae	stated with evidence	Sellards, 1908
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1920
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacrinae	stated with evidence	Durden, 1969
Mylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Schneider, 1983

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

323 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

311 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. H. Scudder. 1868. Supplement to descriptions of articulates. Descriptions of fossil insects found on Mazon Creek, and near Morris, Grundy Co. Ill. Geological Survey of Illinois 3:566-572

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Actinomylacris similis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Archimylacris morienensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chalepomylacris pulchra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Dipeltis diplodiscus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exochomylacris virginiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithomylacris angustum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithomylacris ataxica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Lithomylacris gallica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris abrupta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris alutacea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mylacris ampla ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris analis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mylacris angusta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris anthracophila ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	323 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris antiqua ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris antiquum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris burri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris diplodiscus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris dubia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris lapsa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris lucifuga ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris lucifugum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris maior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mylacris morienensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris ovale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris ovalis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris paradoxa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mylacris pennsylvanica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris pennsylvanicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris pulchra ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Mylacris rugulosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mylacris sellardsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris sellardsii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris similis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris truncata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mylacris truncatula ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mylacris virginiana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris truncatula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phylomylacris abrupta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Promylacris ovale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Promylacris ovalis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Soomylacris burri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Etomylacris Handlirsch, 1920	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mylacridae : *Etomylacris*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1868	Mylacris Scudder p. 568
1879	Mylacris Scudder p. 40
1879	Lithomylacris Scudder p. 48
1885	Promylacris Scudder p. 34
1886	Lithomylacris Scudder p. 220
1886	Mylacris Scudder p. 220
1886	Promylacris Scudder p. 220
1893	Mylacris Scudder
1895	Mylacris Scudder p. 40
1895	Promylacris Scudder p. 47
1895	Lithomylacris Scudder p. 50
1904	Mylacris Sellards
1906	Exochomylacris Handlirsch p. 260
1906	Actinomylacris Handlirsch p. 264
1906	Chalepomylacris Handlirsch p. 266
1906	Mylacris Handlirsch p. 268
1906	Lithomylacris Handlirsch p. 270
1906	Promylacris Handlirsch p. 272
1906	Exochomylacris Handlirsch p. 767

Year	Name and Author
1906	Actinomylacris Handlirsch p. 773
1906	Chalepomylacris Handlirsch p. 775
1908	Mylacris Sellards p. 505
1908	Promylacris Sellards p. 506
1919	Lithomylacris Pruvost p. 235
1920	Actinomylacris Handlirsch p. 454
1920	Exochomylacris Handlirsch p. 454
1920	Chalepomylacris Handlirsch p. 455
1920	Mylacris Handlirsch p. 455
1920	Etomylacris Handlirsch p. 456
1920	Promylacris Handlirsch p. 456
1922	Actinomylacris Handlirsch p. 176
1922	Exochomylacris Handlirsch p. 177
1927	Mylacris Cockerell p. 408
1934	Actinomylacris Carpenter p. 337
1969	Chalepomylacris Durden p. 1167
1969	Mylacris Durden p. 1168
1983	Mylacris Schneider p. 111

References

Scudder S. H. Supplement to descriptions of articulates. Descriptions of fossil insects found on Mazon Creek, and near Morris, Grundy Co. Ill, Geological Survey of Illinois 3, 566-572

Scudder S. H. Palaeozoic Cockroaches: A complete revision of the species of both worlds, with an essay toward their classification, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3, 23-134

Scudder S. H. New genera and species of fossil cockroaches, from the older American rocks, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 37, 34-39

Scudder S. H. The Cockroach of the Past, The Cockroach: An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 205-220

Scudder S. H. Insect fauna of the Rhode Island coal field, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 101, 1-21

Scudder S. H. Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 124, 1-176

Sellards E. H. (1904) A study of the structure of Paleozoic Cockroaches, with descriptions of new forms from the Coal Measures, American Journal of Science, Series 4 18 104, 113-134 doi:10.2475/ajs.s4-18.104.113

Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640

Handlirsch A. (1906) Revision of American Paleozoic insects, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29 1441, 661-820

Sellards E. H. (1908) Cockroaches of the Kansas coal measures and of the Kansas Permian, University Geological Survey of Kansas 9, 501-541

Pruvost P. (1919) Introduction À l'etude du terrain houiller du nord et du Pas-de-Calais: la faune continentale du terrain houiller du nord de la France, 1-584

Handlirsch A. (1920) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaeozoischen Blattarien, Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 129, 431-461

Handlirsch A. (1922) Insecta Palaeozoica, Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia 16, 1-230

Cockerell T. D. A. (1927) The Carboniferous Insects of Maryland, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 19, 385-416

Carpenter F. M. (1934) Carboniferous insects from Pennsylvania in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Annals of the Carnegie Museum 22, 323-341

Durden C. J. (1969) Pennsylvanian correlation using blattoid insects, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 6, 1159-1177

Schneider J. (1983) Die Blattodea (Insecta) des Paläozoikums. Teil 1: Systematik, Ökologie und Biostratigraphyie, Freiberger Forschungshefte C 382, 106-145

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Geol. Surv. Illinois, 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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