| Archimylacris Temporal range: Carboniferous | |
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| An artist's illustration of Archimylacris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | †Blattoptera |
| Family: | †Archimylacridae |
| Subfamily: | †Archimylacrinae |
| Genus: | †Archimylacris Scudder, 1868 |
Archimylacris is an extinct genus of cockroach-like blattopterans, a group of insects ancestral to cockroaches, mantids, and termites.
Archimylacris lived on the warm, swampy forest floors of North America and Europe 300 million years ago, in the Late Carboniferous times. Like modern cockroaches, this insect had a large head shield with long, curved antennae, or feelers, and folded wings. To a modern observer, it would likely appear as a moderate-sized cockroach, with a "tail" (an ovipositors) in the female. Presumably, its habits would be cockroach-like, too, scurrying along the undergrowth eating anything edible, possibly falling prey to labyrinthodont amphibians and very early reptiles.
Living 300 million years ago, this cockroach would have fed on decaying plant material on the forest floor.
In the Media[]
- Archimylacris appears as an enemy in The Land Before Time for GameBoy Advance. It is the first enemy encountered in the second area of the game, the Smelly Swamp. It simply walks back and forth across a branch until it collides with the player. It can be simply defeated by jumping on its back. It gives the player 50 points when defeated.
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