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Ditaxineuridae

Insecta - Ditaxineuridae

Taxonomy

Ditaxineuridae was named by Tillyard (1926). Its type is Ditaxineura.

It was assigned to Protanisoptera by Carpenter (1933), Martynov (1940), Carpenter (1947) and Carpenter (1992); and to Ditaxineuroidea by Huguet et al. (2002) and Bechly (2007).

Subtaxa

Ditaxineura (type genus), Proditaxineura

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1926	Ditaxineuridae Tillyard p. 69
1933	Ditaxineuridae Carpenter
1940	Ditaxineuridae Martynov p. 11
1947	Ditaxineuridae Carpenter p. 51
1992	Ditaxineuridae Carpenter p. 66
2002	Ditaxineuridae Huguet et al. pp. 541-547
2007	Ditaxineuridae Bechly

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Odonatoptera	Martynov 1932

Rank	Name	Author
—	Palaeodonatoptera
—	Plesiodonatoptera
—	Apodonatoptera
—	Paneodonatoptera
—	Neodonatoptera
—	Euodonatoptera
—	Odonatoclada	Bechly 1999
—	Nodialata
suborder	Protanisoptera
—	Ditaxineuromorpha	Pritykina 1980
—	Ditaxineurida
superfamily	Ditaxineuroidea	Tillyard 1926
family	Ditaxineuridae
family	Ditaxineuridae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Ditaxineuridae Tillyard 1926

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G. †Ditaxineura Tillyard 1926

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†Ditaxineura anomalostigma Tillyard 1926

†Ditaxineura cellulosa Carpenter 1933

G. †Proditaxineura Huguet et al. 2002

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†Proditaxineura pritykinae Novokshonov 1992

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
A. Huguet et al. 2002	Tillyard (1926) characterized this family by the presence of ‘only two cross-veins between consecutive branches of the main veins in the distal portion of the wing’. This character is far from being sufficient to define correctly a family of Odonatoptera, because it is simply due to the relatively few number of cells in the wing. We propose to characterize this family by the following synapomorphy: ‘presence of a large cell in cubito-anal area between CuP and CuA, at the base of distal free part of CuP’. These taxa also have a relatively reduced cubito-anal area and narrow wings, with few cells. They also have a relatively narrow area between MP and IMA.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Artinskian	290.1 - 279.3	USA (Kansas)	Ditaxineura anomalostigma (111217 111219 114151) Ditaxineura cellulosa (111319)
Artinskian	290.1 - 279.3	USA (Oklahoma)	Ditaxineura cellulosa (104822 104824 104827)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	Russian Federation (Suksun)	Proditaxineura pritykinae (108206)