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Praelocustopsis ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4404132	https://www.gbif.org/species/4404132
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	192695	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=192695

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Locustavidae : Praelocustopsis

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
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Orthopterida	Boudreaux 1979
order	Orthoptera	Olivier 1789
suborder	Caelifera	Ander 1936
infraorder	Acrididea	MacLeay 1821
-	Acridomorpha
superfamily	Locustopsoidea	Handlirsch 1906
family	Locustavidae	Sharov 1968
subfamily	Praelocustopsinae	Gorochov 2011
genus	Praelocustopsis	Sharov 1968

Scientific Name

Praelocustopsis Sharov, 1968

Name Published In

Sharov. 1968. Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR [= Transactions of the Institute of Paleontology, USSR Academy of Sciences] (Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta) 118:1-216 [251pp]

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Praelocustopsis	genus	belongs to Locustopseidae	stated with evidence	Sharov, 1968
Praelocustopsis	genus	belongs to Praelocustopsinae	stated with evidence	Gorochov, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Type Specimen

Praelocustopsis mirabilis Sharov, 1968

Designated By

Type Information Source

Orthoptera Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Caelifera)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Caelifera)

Vision

well-developed (based on Caelifera)

Diet

grazer, herbivore (based on Caelifera)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Caelifera)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Caelifera)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. G. Sharov. 1968. Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118:1-216

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Praelocustopsis mirabilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1968	Praelocustopsis Sharov
1983	Praelocustopsis Zessin p. 177
2005	Praelocustopsis Gorochov p. 277

References

Sharov A. G. (1968) Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118, 1-216

Zessin W. (1983) Revision der mesozoischen Familie Locustopsidae unter Berücksichtigung neuer Funde (Orthopteroida, Caelifera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 30, 173-237

Gorochov A. V. (2005) Review of Triassic Orthoptera with Descriptions of New and Little Known Taxa: Part 2, Paleontological Journal 39 3, 272-279

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

Trudy paleont. Inst. 118 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Zessin. 1983. Revision der mesozoischen Familie Locustopsidae unter Berücksichtigung neuer Funde (Orthopteroida, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Dtsch. Entomol. Z.) 30(1-3):177 - via Orthoptera Species File

Gorochov. 2005. Review of Triassic Orthoptera with descriptions of new and little known taxa: Part 2. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (Paleont. Zh.) 3:51 - via Orthoptera Species File

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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