ammonites
Mylacris similis Handlirsch 1906 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

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

Belongs to Mylacris according to A. Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Mylacris alutacea, Mylacris analis, Mylacris anthracophila, Mylacris dubia, Mylacris elongata, Mylacris lapsa, Mylacris maior, Mylacris moriensis, Mylacris paradoxa, Mylacris pulchra, Mylacris rugulosa, Mylacris sellardsi, Mylacris truncata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois

Ecology:

Average measurements (in mm): tegmen length 35.0