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Homoiopteridae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4803610	https://www.gbif.org/species/4803610
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	195542	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=195542

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Palaeodictyoptera : Homoiopteridae

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	Palaeodictyoptera	Goldenberg 1877
family	Homoiopteridae	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Homoiopteridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Homoiopteridae	family	belongs to Palaeodictyoptera	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

318 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

304 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

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
Adolarryia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Ametretus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Amousus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Anglopterum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Boltonia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boltonia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Homoioptera ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	318 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Larryia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mazonopterum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Mazothairos ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Ostrava ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Paraostrava ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Parathesoneura ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	307 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Pharciphyzelus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Scepasma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Scepasma ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	315 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Thesoneura ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Turneropterum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Scepasmidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Palaeodictyoptera : Scepasmidae
Roechlingiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Palaeodictyoptera : Roechlingiidae
Thesoneuridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Palaeodictyoptera : Thesoneuridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Homoiopteridae Handlirsch p. 91
1919	Homoiopteridae Handlirsch p. 526
1922	Homoiopteridae Handlirsch p. 40
1930	Homoiopteridae Pruvost p. 146
1934	Roechlingiidae Guthörl p. 88
1943	Thesoneuridae Carpenter p. 10

Year	Name and Author
1949	Scepasmidae Haupt
1960	Roechlingiidae Kukalová p. 239
1972	Homoiopteridae Kukalová-Peck p. 259
1985	Homoiopteridae Brauckmann et al. p. 24
1992	Homoiopteridae Carpenter p. 35
2003	Homoiopteridae Brauckmann et al. p. 12

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

Handlirsch A. (1922) Insecta Palaeozoica, Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia 16, 1-230

Pruvost P. (1930) La faune continentale du terrain houiller de la Belgique, Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 44, 105-282

Guthörl P. (1934) Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes, Im Vertrieb bei der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 44 4, 1-279

Carpenter F. M. (1943) Carboniferous insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers 3 1, 9-24

Kukalová J. (1960) New Palaeodictyoptera (Insecta) of the Carboniferous and Permian of Czechoslovakia, Sborník Ústredního Ústavu Geologického 25, 239-251

Kukalová-Peck J. (1972) Unusual structures in the Paleozoic insect Orders Megasecoptera and Palaeodictyoptera, with a description of a new family, Psyche 79, 243-268

Brauckmann C., Koch L., et al (1985) Spinnentiere (Arachnida) und Insekten aus den Vorhalle-Schichten (Namurium B; Ober-Karbon) von Hagen-Vorhalle (West-Deutschland), Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 3, 1-132

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

Brauckmann C., Schöllmann L., et al (2003) Die fossilen Insekten, Spinnentiere und Eurypteriden von Hagen-Vorhalle, Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 59, 1-89

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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