Protorthoptera
Protorthoptera Temporal range: Carboniferous
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Cohort: | Polyneoptera |
Order: | †Protorthoptera Handlirsch, 1906 |
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The Protorthoptera are an extinct order of Palaeozoic insects, and represent a wastebasket taxon and paraphyletic assemblage of basal neoptera[citation needed]. They appear during the Middle Carboniferous (late Serpukhovian or early Bashkirian), making them among the earliest known winged insects in the fossil record. may be expanded to form a shield. The group includes the ancestors of all other polyneopterous insects.
Families and genera[]
Protorthoptera[1]
- † Carpenter, 1938
- † Carpenter, 1938
- † Handlirsch, 1922
- † Lameere, 1917
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Scudder, 1885
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Bolton, 1925 (synonym Oryctoblattinidae Handlirsch, 1906)
- † Giebel, 1867
- † Richardson, 1956
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Meunier, 1912
- † Handlirsch, 1911
- † Scudder, 1885
- † Kukalova, 1965
- † Kukalova, 1965
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- † Handlirsch, 1906 (synonym Teneopteridae)
- † Scudder, 1885
- † Handlirsch, 1906 (synonym Hadentomoidea Handlirsch, 1906)
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- †
- † Handlirsch, 1906
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- † Handlirsch, 1906 (synonym Aenigmatodidae Handlirsch, 1906 & Hapalopteroidea Handlirsch, 1906)
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Carpenter, 1977
- † Carpenter, 1977
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Brongniart, 1893
- † Handlirsch, 1906
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- † Carpenter, 1992
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- † Borre, 1875
- † Laurentiaux & Laurentiaux-Vieira, 1981
- † Handlirsch, 1904
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- † Bolton, 1925
- † Brongniart, 1893
- † Carpenter, 1950
- † Carpenter, 1950
- † Martynov, 1938
- † Carpenter, 1966
- † Carpenter, 1966
- † Scudder, 1885
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
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- † Carpenter, 1992
- †Incertae sedis
- † Germar, 1842
- † Scudder, 1885
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Richardson, 1956
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Sellards, 1909
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Scudder, 1868
- † Lameere, 1917
- † Scudder, 1885
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Dana, 1864
- † Sellards, 1909
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Dana, 1864
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Bolton, 1921
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Handlirsch, 1906
- † Bolton, 1922
- † Handlirsch, 1911
References[]
- ^ order †Protorthoptera, Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 20 October 2021)
- Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. Volume 3 of Part R, Arthropoda 4; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America.
- Grimaldi, David & Engel, Michael S. (2005-05-16). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.
Categories:
- Carboniferous insects
- Extinct insect orders
- Taxa named by Anton Handlirsch
- Paraphyletic groups
- Prehistoric insect stubs
- Carboniferous animal stubs