Insecta - Orthoptera - Protogryllidae

Full reference: A. Bode. 1953. Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103:1-375

Belongs to Protogryllus according to A. Bode 1953

Sister taxa: Protogryllus dobbertinensis, Protogryllus femina, Protogryllus foliolum, Protogryllus formosus, Protogryllus germanicus, Protogryllus grandis, Protogryllus hattorfensis, Protogryllus implicatus, Protogryllus irregularis, Protogryllus laceratus, Protogryllus liadis, Protogryllus magnus, Protogryllus major, Protogryllus minor, Protogryllus multoramosus, Protogryllus multovenosus, Protogryllus parallelus, Protogryllus praeacutus, Protogryllus sedgwicki, Protogryllus stenobasis, Protogryllus symmetricus, Protogryllus vicinus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hondelage, Braunschweig, which is in a Toarcian deep-water mudstone in the Posidonia Shale Formation of Germany

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Average measurements (in mm): forewing 19.3 x 5.0