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Brachymylacris ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4713260	https://www.gbif.org/species/4713260
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	220357	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=220357

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Hemimylacridae : Brachymylacris

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mylacridae : Brachymylacris

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
subfamily	Hemimylacrinae
genus	Brachymylacris	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Brachymylacris Handlirsch, 1906

Name Published In

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 29

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Brachymylacris	genus	belongs to Mylacridae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Brachymylacris	genus	belongs to Hemimylacridae	stated with evidence	Durden, 1969

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

315 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

307 - 299 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
Brachymylacris bassleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Brachymylacris elongata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	315 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Brachymylacris martini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Brachymylacris nodulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Brachymylacris rotundata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Mesitoblatta nodulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Stellamylacris	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Hemimylacridae : *Stellamylacris*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Brachymylacris Handlirsch p. 266
1920	Brachymylacris Handlirsch p. 455
1927	Brachymylacris Cockerell p. 407
1969	Brachymylacris Durden p. 1167

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

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

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

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 - 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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