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Permelcana ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4710866	https://www.gbif.org/species/4710866
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	182395	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=182395

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Permelcanidae : Permelcana

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	Ensifera	Chopard 1920
infraorder	Elcanidea	Handlirsch 1906
superfamily	Elcanoidea	Handlirsch 1906
family	Permelcanidae	Sharov 1962
subfamily	Permelcaninae	Sharov 1962
genus	Permelcana	Sharov 1962

Scientific Name

Permelcana Sharov, 1962

Name Published In

Sharov. 1962. In Rodendorf. Chlenistonogie. Trakheinye i khelitserovye. Otryad Orthoptera. Pryamokrylye (The Order Orthoptera). Osnovy paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 9

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Permelcana	genus	belongs to Permelcanidae	stated with evidence	Sharov, 1962
Permelcana	genus	subjective synonym of Promartynovia	stated with evidence	Zessin, 1987
Permelcana	genus	belongs to Permelcanidae	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Permelcana	genus	belongs to Permelcaninae	stated with evidence	Gorochov, 1995
Permelcana	genus	belongs to Permelcanidae	stated without evidence	Novokshonov, 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

272 - 269 Ma
Permian

Type Specimen

Permelcana sojanense Sharov, 1962

Designated By

Sharov. 1962. In Rodendorf. Chlenistonogie. Trakheinye i khelitserovye. Otryad Orthoptera. Pryamokrylye (The Order Orthoptera). Osnovy paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 9

Type Information Source

Orthoptera Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ensifera)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ensifera)

Vision

well-developed (based on Ensifera)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ensifera)

Reproduction

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

Ontogeny

molting (based on Ensifera)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Ensifera)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. G. Sharov. 1962. Novoe Permskoe semeystvo pryamokrylykh (Orthoptera). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1962(2):112-116

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Permelcana kukalovae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Permelcana sojanense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1962	Permelcana Sharov p. 114
1968	Permelcana Sharov
1992	Permelcana Carpenter p. 158
1995	Permelcana Gorochov
1998	Permelcana Novokshonov p. 36

References

Sharov A. G. (1962) Novoe Permskoe semeystvo pryamokrylykh (Orthoptera), Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1962 2, 112-116

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

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

Gorochov A. V. (1995) Sistema i evolyutsiya pryamokrylykh podotryada Ensifera (Orthoptera), chast I, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 260 1, 1-224

Novokshonov V. G. (1998) Iskopaemye nasekomye Chekardy, Chekarda - Mestonakhozhdenie Permskikh Iskopaemykh Rasteniy i Nasekomykh, 25-54

Sharov. 1962. Novoe permskoe semeistvo pryamokrylykh (Orthoptera) [A new Permian family Permelcanidae (Orthoptera). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (Paleont. Zh.) No. 2:114 - via Orthoptera Species File

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) 118:31 - via Orthoptera Species File

Gorochov. 1989. New taxa of the orthopteran families Bintoniellidae, Xenopteridae, Permelcanidae and Vitimiidae [Vitimidae] (Orthoptera, Ensifera) from Mesozoic Asia. Vestnik Zoologii 4:25 - via Orthoptera Species File

Sharov. 1962. In Rodendorf. Chlenistonogie. Trakheinye i khelitserovye. Otryad Orthoptera. Pryamokrylye (The Order Orthoptera). Osnovy paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 9:162 - via Orthoptera Species File

Zessin. 1987. Variabilität, Merkmalswandel und Phylogenie der Elcanidae im Jungpaläozoikum und Mesozoikum und die Phylogenie der Ensifera (Orthopteroida, Ensifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Dtsch. Entomol. Z.) 34(1-3):19 - via Orthoptera Species File

Carpenter. 1966. The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 2. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology (Psyche) 73:82 - via Orthoptera 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

Paleont. Zh. 1962 (2) - 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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