Overview
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The Protorthoptera are an extinct order of Palaeozoic insects, and represent a wastebasket taxon and paraphyletic assemblage of basal neoptera. 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.
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- 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 and Engel, Michael S. (2005-05-16). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.
Taxonomy
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The Order Protorthoptera is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (6): Blattinopsidae · Chelopteridae · Phenopteridae · Probnidae · Stereopteridae · Strephocladidae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in the Order Protorthoptera.
Families
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Blattinopsidae
Chelopteridae
Phenopteridae
Probnidae
Stereopteridae
Strephocladidae
More info about the Family Strephocladidae may be found here.
References
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- 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 and Engel, Michael S. (2005-05-16). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.
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