ammonites
Orthomylacris pluteus Scudder 1895 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Alternative combination: Paromylacris pluteus

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 124:1-176

Belongs to Orthomylacris according to A. Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Orthomylacris alutacea, Orthomylacris analis, Orthomylacris antiqua, Orthomylacris berryi, Orthomylacris contorta, Orthomylacris elongata, Orthomylacris franklini, Orthomylacris heeri, Orthomylacris lucifuga, Orthomylacris mansfieldi, Orthomylacris pennsylvanica, Orthomylacris recta, Orthomylacris rugulosa, Orthomylacris truncatula

Type specimen: Coll Lacoe 2040 a, a tegmen (fragment). Its type locality is Butter mine in Pittston, which is in a Westphalian terrestrial shale/anthracite in the Pottsville Formation of Pennsylvania.

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Average measurements (in mm): tegmen 30.0 x 16.0