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Diaphanopteridae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4770206	https://www.gbif.org/species/4770206
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	175877	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=175877

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diaphanopterodea : Diaphanopteridae

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
superorder	Palaeodictyopterida
order	Diaphanopterodea	Handlirsch 1906
family	Diaphanopteridae	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Diaphanopteridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Diaphanopteridae	family	belongs to Megasecoptera	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Diaphanopteridae	family	belongs to Diaphanopteridea	stated with evidence	Rohdendorf, 1961
Diaphanopteridae	family	belongs to Diaphanopterodea	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1963
Diaphanopteridae	family	belongs to Eudiaphanopterodea	stated with evidence	Pinto and de Ornellas, 1978
Diaphanopteridae	family	belongs to Diaphanopterodea	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

307 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

299 - 296 Ma
Paleozoic

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
Carrizodiaphanoptera ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Diaphanoptera genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Diaphanoptera ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Diaphpterum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	307 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Philiasptilon ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Philiasptilon genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Diaphanopteritidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diaphanopterodea : Diaphanopteritidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Diaphanopteridae Handlirsch p. 313
1919	Diaphanopteritidae Handlirsch p. 575
1961	Diaphanopteridae Rohdendorf p. 78
1963	Diaphanopteridae Carpenter p. 241
1978	Diaphanopteridae Pinto and de Ornellas p. 92
1992	Diaphanopteridae Carpenter p. 55
2003	Diaphanopteridae Béthoux and Nel p. 1016
2017	Diaphanopteridae Prokop and Kukalová-Peck p. 499

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. (1919) Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten, Denkschriften der Akademie Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 96, 511-592

Rohdendorf B. B. (1961) Subclass Palaeoptera, in Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 85, 69-89

Carpenter F. M. (1963) Studies on Carboniferous insects from Commentry, France: Part V. The genus Diaphanoptera and the order Diaphanopterodea, Psyche 70, 240-256

Pinto I. D., de Ornellas L. P. (1978) Upper Carboniferous Insects from Argentina. I-Família Diaphanopteridae (Megasecopteroidea), Pesquisas 10, 87-95

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

Béthoux O., Nel A. (2003) Revision of Diaphanoptera species and new diagnosis of Diaphanopteridae (Palaeoptera: Diaphanopterodea), Journal of Paleontology 77 5, 1016-1020

Prokop J., Kukalová-Peck J. (2017) New insects from the earliest Permian of Carrizo Arroyo (New Mexico, USA) bridging the gap between the Carboniferous and Permian entomofaunas, Insect Systematics & Evolution 48, 493-511

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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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