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Mesopanorpodes ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4682652	https://www.gbif.org/species/4682652
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	136746	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=136746

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mecoptera : Mesopanorpodidae : Mesopanorpodes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mecoptera : Mesopsychidae : Mesopanorpodes

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
suborder	Aneuretopsychina	Rasnitsyn and Kozlov 1990
family	Mesopsychidae	Tillyard 1917
genus	Mesopanorpodes	Tillyard 1918

Scientific Name

Mesopanorpodes Tillyard, 1918

Name Published In

Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 43

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Mesopanorpodidae	stated with evidence	Tillyard, 1918
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Mesopanorpodidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Permochoristinae	stated with evidence	Novokshonov, 1997
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Mesopanorpodidae	stated with evidence	Hong et al., 2002
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Permochoristinae	stated with evidence	Novokshonov et al., 2004
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Mesopanorpodidae	stated with evidence	Sun and Hong, 2011
Mesopanorpodes	genus	belongs to Mesopsychidae	stated with evidence	Lin et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

242 - 235 Ma
Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 3 Odonata and Protodonata. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43:417-436

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mesopanorpa wianamattensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesopanorpodes latus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Mesopanorpodes shaanxiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1918	Mesopanorpodes Tillyard
1918	Mesopanorpa Tillyard p. 747
1978	Mesopanorpodes Willmann p. 55
1992	Mesopanorpodes Carpenter
1997	Mesopanorpodes Novokshonov p. 69
2002	Mesopanorpodes Hong et al. p. 281
2004	Mesopanorpodes Novokshonov et al. p. S214
2011	Mesopanorpodes Sun and Hong p. 26
2016	Mesopanorpodes Lin et al. p. 3

References

Tillyard R. J. (1918) Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 3 Odonata and Protodonata, The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43, 417-436

Tillyard R. J. (1918) Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell, The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42, 720-756

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

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

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

Hong Y. C., Guo X. R., et al (2002) Middle Triassic new fossils of Mesopanorpodidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province, China, Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 27 2, 278-283

Novokshonov V. G., Sukacheva I. D., et al (2004) An Early Triassic scorpionfly (Panorpida = Mecoptera) of the Vologda Region, Paleontological Journal 38 Suppl 2, S214-S215

Sun X. L., Hong Y. C. (2011) Midtriassic species of Mesopanorpodidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Shaanxi, China, Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 36 1, 26-28

Lin X. D., Shih M. J. H., et al (2016) New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera), BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 1, 1-22

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 43 - 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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