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Geinitziidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4769928	https://www.gbif.org/species/4769928
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	170317	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=170317

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Geinitziidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Reculida : Geinitziidae

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
order	Reculida
family	Geinitziidae	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Geinitziidae

Name Published In

Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insecten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen: Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen. Engelman

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Geinitziidae	family	belongs to Mantoidea	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Geinitziidae	family	belongs to Protoperlaria	stated with evidence	Martynov, 1937
Geinitziidae	family	belongs to Grylloblattina	stated with evidence	Storozhenko, 1997
Geinitziidae	family	belongs to Grylloblattida	stated with evidence	Aristov, 2004
Geinitziidae	family	belongs to Grylloblattina	stated with evidence	Aristov, 2009
Geinitziidae	family	belongs to Reculida	stated with evidence	Aristov, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

152 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Type Specimen

†Geinitziidae Handlirsch, 1906

Designated By

Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insecten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen: Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen. Engelman

Type Information Source

Grylloblattodea Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Geinitziinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		4	279 Ma Permian	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Stegopterinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Fletchitzia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Geinitzia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	272 Ma Permian	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Megasepididontus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Permoshurabia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	279 Ma Permian	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Permovalia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Prosepididontus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Roemerula ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Sauk ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Say ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	272 Ma Permian	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Sinosepididontus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Stegopterum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	279 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Sukhonia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Prosepididontidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Prosepididontidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Geinitziidae Handlirsch p. 426
1920	Prosepididontidae Handlirsch p. 200
1937	Geinitziidae Martynov p. 76
1953	Geinitziidae Bode
1992	Prosepididontidae Carpenter
1997	Geinitziidae Storozhenko p. 14

Year	Name and Author
1998	Geinitziidae Storozhenko p. 45
2000	Geinitziidae Wappler p. 77
2001	Geinitziidae Wappler p. 96
2004	Geinitziidae Aristov p. 518
2009	Geinitziidae Aristov p. 178
2015	Geinitziidae Aristov p. 1315

References

Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640

Handlirsch A. (1920) Palaeontologie, Handbuch der Entomologie 3, 117-208

Martynov A. V. (1937) Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 1-178

Bode A. (1953) Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103, 1-375

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

Storozhenko S. Y. (1997) Classification of the Order Grylloblattida (Insecta), with description of new taxa, Far Eastern Entomologist 42, 1-20

Storozhenko S. Y. (1998) , Sistematika, Filogeniya i Evolyutsiya Grilloblattidovykh Nasekomykh (Insecta: Grylloblattida), 1-207

Wappler T. (2000) Triassische Insekten aus dem Karoo-Becken im südlichen Afrika, Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 28, 68-84

Wappler T. (2001) New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa, Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 24 52/53, 87-104

Aristov D. S. (2004) The fauna of grylloblattid insects (Grylloblattida) from the end of the Late Permian to the first half of the Triassic, Paleontological Journal 38, 514-521

Aristov D. S. (2009) A New Family of the Order Grylloblattida (Insecta) from the Middle Permian of Russia, Paleontological Journal 43 2, 178-182

Aristov D. S. (2015) New Gryllones (Insecta) from the Permian of Russia, Paleontological Journal 49, 1310-1333

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ansorge & Rasnitsyn. 2000. Identity of Prosepididontus calopteryx Handlirsch 1920 (Insecta: Grylloblattida: Geinitziidae). Acta Geologica Hispanica (AGH) 35(1-2):19-23 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Rasnitsyn. 1982. Triassic and Jurassic insects of the genus Shurabia (Grylloblattida, Geinitziidae). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1982(3):79 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 1998. Sistematika, filogeniya i evolyutsiya grilloblattidovykh (insecta; Grylloblattida) [Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of the grylloblattids (Insecta: Grylloblattida)], Dal' nauka, Vladivostok 126 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Aristov. 2009. Review of the stratigraphic distribution of Permian Grylloblattida (Insecta), with descriptions of new taxa. Paleontological Journal 43(6):643-651 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insecten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen: Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen. Engelman - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Huang, D.Y. & Nel. 2008. New Grylloblattida related to the genus Prosepididontus Handlirsch, 1920 in the Middle Jurassic of china (Insecta: Geinitziidae). Alcheringa 32 4:395-403 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Huang, Z.-q., F.-y. Li & Lin. 1991. Some Early Jurassic insects from Meixi of Yiyang County, Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (APS) 30(5):647-654 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Riek. 1976. A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum (ANM) 22(3):791-820 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 1990. [New fossil grylloblattid insects (Insecta, Grylloblattida: Blattogryllidae, Geinitziidae) from the Permian and Mesozoic of Asia.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1990(4):57-65 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 2002. In Rasnitsyn. Infraclass Gryllones. In Rasnitsyn & Quicke [Ed.]. Order Grylloblattida Walker, 1914. History of Insects, Kluwer Academic Publishers 278-283 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

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