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Orthomylacris ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4710760	https://www.gbif.org/species/4710760
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	191952	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=191952

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Orthomylacridae : Orthomylacris

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mylacridae : Orthomylacris

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	Orthomylacris	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Orthomylacris Handlirsch, 1906

Name Published In

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 29, no. 1441

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orthomylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Orthomylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacrinae	stated with evidence	Pruvost, 1919
Orthomylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1920

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

318 - 311 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

305 - 303 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Blattina heeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithomylacris panperata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithomylacris pittstonianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris gurleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylacris mansfieldii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthomylacris alutacea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris analis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris berryi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris contorta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris cordiformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris delicatula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris franklini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris gurleyi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris hastata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris heeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris mansfieldi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	318 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris mathieui ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	306 Ma Carboniferous	306 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris northi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris pauperata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris pennsylvaniae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris pittstoniana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris pluteus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris recta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orthomylacris rigida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Paromylacris pluteus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phthinomylacris cordiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phthinomylacris medialis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Phthinomylacris pauper ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Promylacris rigida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Soomylacris northi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Orthomylacris Handlirsch p. 260
1906	Phthinomylacris Handlirsch p. 265
1906	Orthomylacris Handlirsch p. 768
1906	Phthinomylacris Handlirsch p. 774
1911	Orthomylacris Handlirsch
1919	Orthomylacris Pruvost p. 232
1920	Orthomylacris Handlirsch p. 454

Year	Name and Author
1920	Phthinomylacris Handlirsch p. 455
1921	Orthomylacris Bolton
1922	Orthomylacris Handlirsch p. 174
1922	Phthinomylacris Handlirsch p. 177
1927	Orthomylacris Cockerell p. 408
1939	Orthomylacris Wallis p. 30
1950	Orthomylacris Laurentiaux p. 78

References

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

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. (1911) New Paleozoic insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois, American Journal of Science, Series 4 31, 353-377

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

Bolton H. (1921) , A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures, 1-80

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

Wallis F. S. (1939) New blattoid insects from the South Wales coalfield, Geological Magazine 76, 23-35

Laurentiaux D. (1950) Les insectes des bassins houillers du Gard et de la Loire, Annales de Paléontologie 46, 65-84

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

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 29, no. 1441 - 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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