Insecta - Eoblattida - Mesorthopteridae
Synonym: Sylviodidae Martynov 1940
Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1922. Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 9 Orthoptera, and additions to the Protorthoptera, Odonata, Hemiptera and Planipennia. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47:447-470
Parent taxon: Eoblattida according to D. S. Aristov 2019
See also Aristov 2009, Aristov 2014, Aristov 2015, Aristov 2017, Carpenter 1992, Martynov 1940, Riek 1974, Storozhenko 1997, Storozhenko 1998, Storozhenko and Aristov 2021, Tillyard 1922 and Tillyard 1923
Sister taxa: Atactophlebiidae, Babalidae, Bardapteridae, Batkentakidae, Blattogryllidae, Czekardia, Daldubidae, Doubraviidae, Elmonympha, Euryptilonidae, Iblatta, Idelinellidae, Megakhosaridae, Permopectinidae, Protophasmatidae, Soyanopteridae, Stenoneuridae, Balduria, Protoblattoidea minor, Pseudoblattinopsis, Xenogryllacris, Eucaenoidea, Protoblattoidea sellardsi, Protophasmidae, Archimantides, Asyncritidae, Archiblattides, Lapparentiella, Cacurgidea, Nemuropsidae
Subtaxa: Anakitala Austroidelia Belmophenopterum Locustoblattina Mesoidelia Mesorthopterina Mesorthopteron Parastenaropodites Paridelia Permorthopteron Sharovites Sosnowiecia Sylviodes Taskanatus Tshermyaninus
Type: Mesorthopteron
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (3 collections), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (5), South Africa (1)
• Permian of Australia (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (12)
• Carboniferous of Poland (1)
Total: 25 collections including 60 occurrences