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Palaeontinoidea
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Cicadomorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Palaeontinoidea Handlirsch, 1906 |
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Palaeontinoidea is an extinct superfamily of cicadomorph hemipteran insects. This superfamily contains three families.[1]
Description
[edit]Palaeontinoids were comparatively large, cicada-like insects that existed from the Upper Permian to the Middle Cretaceous (around 260.4 to 112.0 million years ago).
Subdivisions
[edit]The three families classified under Palaeontinoidea, along with their age range and collection sites, are the following:
- Mesogereonidae Tillyard, 1921
- Upper Triassic; Australia and South Africa. Contains 2 genera, Mesogereon and Triassogereon.[2]
- Dunstaniidae Tillyard, 1916
- Upper Permian to Lower Jurassic; South Africa, Australia, France, Central Asia, and China.[2][3]
- Palaeontinidae Handlirsch, 1906
- Upper Triassic to Lower Cretaceous; Brazil, South Korea, China, Russia, Germany, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Contains around 30 to 40 genera and about a hundred species.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Boris B. Rohdendorf; Donald Ray Davis, eds. (1991). Fundamentals of paleontology: Arthropoda, Tracheata, Chelicerata. Vol. 9. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. p. 220–224.
- ^ a b c Bo Wang; Haichun Zhang & Jacek Szwedo (2009). "Jurassic Palaeontinidae from China and the Higher Systematics of Palaeontinoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha)". Palaeontology. 52 (Part 1). The Palaeontological Association: 53–64. Bibcode:2009Palgy..52...53W. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00826.x.
- ^ Fabrice Lefebvre; André Nel; Francine Papier; Léa Grauvogel-Stamm & Jean-Claude Gall (1998). "The First 'Cicada-like Homoptera' from the Triassic of the Vosges, France" (PDF). Palaeontology. 41 (Part 6). The Palaeontological Association: 1195–1200. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
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