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Fletchitzia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4404126	https://www.gbif.org/species/4404126
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	177026	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=177026

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Geinitziidae : Fletchitzia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Reculida : Geinitziidae : Fletchitzia

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
order	Reculida
family	Geinitziidae	Handlirsch 1906
genus	Fletchitzia	Riek 1976

Scientific Name

Fletchitzia Riek, 1976

Name Published In

Riek. 1976. A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum (ANM) 22(3):791-820

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Fletchitzia	genus	belongs to Geinitziidae	stated with evidence	Riek, 1976

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Type Specimen

Fletchitzia picturata Riek, 1976

Designated By

Riek. 1976. A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum (ANM) 22(3):806

Type Information Source

Grylloblattodea Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. F. Riek. 1976. A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(3):791-820

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Fletchitzia picturata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Fletchizia Riek, 1976	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Geinitziidae : *Fletchizia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1976	Fletchitzia Riek p. 804
1982	Fletchitzia Rasnitsyn p. 79
1998	Fletchizia Storozhenko p. 131
2000	Fletchitzia Wappler p. 78
2001	Fletchitzia Wappler p. 96
2009	Fletchitzia Aristov et al. p. 423

References

Riek E. F. (1976) A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa, Annals of the Natal Museum 22 3, 791-820

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1982) Triassic and Jurassic Insects of the genus Shurabia (Grylloblattida, Geinitziidae), Paleontological Journal 16 3, 77-86

Storozhenko S. Y. (1998) , Sistematika, Filogeniya i Evolyutsiya Grilloblattidovykh Nasekomykh (Insecta: Grylloblattida), 1-207

Wappler T. (2000) Triassische Insekten aus dem Karoo-Becken im südlichen Afrika, Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 28, 68-84

Wappler T. (2001) New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa, Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 24 52/53, 87-104

Aristov D. S., Wappler T., et al (2009) New and Little-Known Grylloblattids of the Family Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe, Asia, and South Africa, Paleontological Journal 43, 418-424

Riek. 1976. A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum (ANM) 22(3):806 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original work (title/other) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Natal Mus. 22 - 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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