Palaeontinoidea

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Palaeontinoidea
Temporal range:
Upper Permian to Middle Cretaceous
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
Superfamily: †Palaeontinoidea
Handlirsch, 1906
Families

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Palaeontinoidea is an extinct superfamily of cicadomorph hemipteran insects. This superfamily contains three families.[1]

Description[]

Palaeontinoids were comparatively large, cicada-like insects that existed from the Upper Permian to the Middle Cretaceous (around 260.4 to 112.0 million years ago).

Subdivisions[]

The three families classified under Palaeontinoidea, along with their age range and collection sites, are the following:

  • Tillyard, 1921
Upper Triassic; Australia and South Africa. Contains two monophyletic genera.[2]
  • Tillyard, 1916
Upper Permian to Lower Jurassic; South Africa, Australia, France, Central Asia, and China.[2][3]
Upper Triassic to Middle Cretaceous; Brazil, China, Russia, Germany, the Transbaikal region, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Contains around 30 to 40 genera and about a hundred species.[2]

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References[]

  1. ^ Boris B. Rohdendorf; Donald Ray Davis, eds. (1991). Fundamentals of paleontology: Arthropoda, Tracheata, Chelicerata. Vol. Volume 9. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. p. 220–224. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ a b c Bo Wang; Haichun Zhang & Jacek Szwedo (2009). "Jurassic Palaeontinidae from China and the Higher Systematics of Palaeontinoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha)". Palaeontology. The Palaeontological Association. 52 (Part 1): 53–64. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00826.x.
  3. ^ Fabrice Lefebvre; André Nel; Francine Papier; Léa Grauvogel-Stamm & Jean-Claude Gall (1998). "The First 'Cicada-like Homoptera' from the Triassic of the Vosges, France" (PDF). Palaeontology. The Palaeontological Association. 41 (Part 6): 1195–1200. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2011.


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