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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	152573	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=152573

Rank

infraclass (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Neoptera

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neoptera	infraclass	belongs to Pterygota	stated with evidence	Martynov, 1928
Neoptera	infraclass	belongs to Pterygota	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Neoptera	infraclass	belongs to Pterygota	stated with evidence	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence, 2004
Neoptera	infraclass	belongs to Neopterygota	stated with evidence	Sroka et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

41,269

Extant Size (PBDB)

8,999 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

323 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous

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

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Blattaria genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Cockroach	355	315 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant
Glosselytrodea ✝ order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		63	279 Ma Permian	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Mixotermitoidea ✝ order	listed (PBDB)		2	315 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Psocodea order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Bark Louse	237	201 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Ampelipteridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	318 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Apheloneuridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Archaemiopteridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	307 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Archipanorpidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Asiuropidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Baryshnyalidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Boltonocostidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Choristosialidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Dictyodipteridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Gelasopteridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Metropatoridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Micropalentomidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Perielytridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	280 Ma Permian	280 Ma Permian
Permembiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	290 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Permosialidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		48	296 Ma Permian	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Saurodectidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Sinembiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Surijokopsocidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Synomaloptilidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Trachopterygidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Uninervidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	260 Ma Permian	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Westphalopsocidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Zygopsocidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Bruayaphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Controversala ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Eopanorpella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Metropatorites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Oiophassus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Palaeoheteroptera ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Palaeonepidoideus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Prosigara ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Sibosmylina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Sphalmatoblattina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	303 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Surijokocypha ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Sycopteron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Tillyardites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Triadochorista ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Trichorthophlebia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Blattoneoptera unranked clade	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Clareocercaria unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		5,583	318 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant
Endoneoptera unranked clade	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Exopterygota unranked clade	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Hemineoptera unranked clade	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Holometabola unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		30,834	318 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant
Orthoneoptera unranked clade	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Polyneoptera unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		5,775	323 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1918	Sycopteridae Tillyard
1923	Neoptera Martynov
1928	Neoptera Martynov p. 10
1935	Naucoris crassus Piton p. 90 figs. Pl 4, fig 4
1940	Dictyophara scudderi Piton p. 162 figs. Pl XVIII fig 8
1992	Neoptera Carpenter
2004	Neoptera Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence
2012	Paraneoptera Nel et al. p. 385
2014	Neoptera Misof et al.
2015	Neoptera Sroka et al. p. 979

References

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

Tillyard R. J. (1918) On the affinities of two interesting fossil insects from the Upper Carboniferous of Commentry, France, The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43, 123-134

Martynov A. V. (1928) Permian fossil Insects of North-East Europe, Travaux du Musée Géologique prés l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS 4, 1-118

Piton L. (1935) Taxonomic names, in La faune entomologique des gisements Mio-Pliocènes du Massif Central, Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne (N. S.) 1, 65-104

Piton L. (1940) , Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune), 1-303

Kukalová-Peck J., Lawrence J. F. (2004) Relationships among coleopteran suborders and major endoneopteran lineages: Evidence from hind wing characters, European Journal of Entomology 101, 95-144

Nel P., Azar D., et al (2012) From Carboniferous to Recent: wing venation enlightens evolution of thysanopteran lineage, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10, 385-399

Misof B., Liu S. L., et al (2014) Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution, Science 346, 763-767

Sroka P., Staniczek A. H., et al (2015) Revision of the giant pterygote insect Bojophlebia prokopi Kukalova-Peck, 1985 (Hydropalaeoptera: Bojophlebiidae) from the Carboniferous of the Czech Republic, with the first cladistic analysis of fossil palaeopterous insects, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13, 963-982

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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