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Altajopanorpa ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4945819	https://www.gbif.org/species/4945819
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	136710	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=136710

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mecoptera : Kaltanidae : Altajopanorpa

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mecoptera : Kaltanidae : Altajopanorpa

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
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Mecoptera	Packard 1886
family	Kaltanidae	Martynova 1958
genus	Altajopanorpa	Martynova 1948

Scientific Name

Altajopanorpa Martynova, 1948

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Altajopanorpa	genus	belongs to Kaltanidae	stated with evidence	Martynova, 1961
Altajopanorpa	genus	belongs to Kaltanidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Altajopanorpa	genus	belongs to Kaltanidae	stated with evidence	Novokshonov, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

272 - 269 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Altajopanorpa brevis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa cellulosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa elegans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa grandis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa iljinskiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa kaltanica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa karaungirica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa nigronervosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa pilosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa postrema ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Altajopanorpa rhombica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Kaltana pilosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1948	Altajopanorpa Martynova p. 113
1958	Kaltana Martynova p. 80
1961	Altajopanorpa Martynova p. 494
1978	Altajopanorpa Willmann p. 6
1992	Altajopanorpa Carpenter
1997	Altajopanorpa Novokshonov p. 32

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Martynova O. M. (1958) Novye nasekomye iz Permskikh i Mezozoiskikh otlozhenii SSSR [=New insects from the Permian and Mesozoic deposits of the USSR], Materialy po Osnovam Paleontologii 2, 69-94

Martynova O. M. (1961) Neuropteroidea, Mecopteroidea, Trichoptera in Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 85, 469-593

Willmann R. (1978) Mecoptera (Insecta, Holometabola), Fossilum Catalogus, Animalia 124, 1-139

Novokshonov V. G. (1997) , Rannyaya Evolyutsiya Skorpionnits (Insecta: Panorpida), 1-140

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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