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Steleopteron

Insecta - Odonata - Steleopteridae

Taxonomy

Steleopteron was named by Handlirsch (1906). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Steleopteridae.

It was assigned to Amphipterygidae by Ponomarenko (1985); to Amphipteryginae by Nel and Paicheler (1993); and to Steleopteridae by Handlirsch (1906), Carpenter (1992), Fleck et al. (2001), Zheng et al. (2018).

Species

S. cretacicus, S. deichmuelleri

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1906	Steleopteron Handlirsch p. 598
1985	Steleopteron Ponomarenko p. 136
1992	Steleopteron Carpenter p. 87
1993	Steleopteron Nel and Paicheler p. 382
2001	Steleopteron Fleck et al.
2018	Steleopteron Zheng et al. p. 1

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Odonatoptera	Martynov 1932
—	Palaeodonatoptera
—	Plesiodonatoptera
—	Apodonatoptera
—	Paneodonatoptera
—	Neodonatoptera
—	Euodonatoptera
—	Odonatoclada	Bechly 1999
—	Nodialata
—	Discoidalia
—	Stigmoptera
—	Lobodonata
—	Panodonata
order	Odonata
suborder	Zygoptera	Selys-Longchamps 1854
family	Steleopteridae
genus	Steleopteron

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.

G. †Steleopteron Handlirsch 1906

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†Steleopteron cretacicus Zheng et al. 2018

†Steleopteron deichmuelleri Handlirsch 1906

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitino

Form:

roller-shapedo

Environment:

freshwater, terrestrialo

Locomotion:

fast-movingo

Life habit:

volanto

Diet:

carnivoreo

Diet 2:

insectivoreo

Vision:

well-developedo

Dispersal:

watero

Created:

2011-03-07 03:41:10

Modified:

2011-03-06 10:41:10

Source: o = order

Reference: Ren and Guo 1996

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Tithonian to the top of the Late/Upper Hauterivian or 149.20000 to 125.77000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Tithonian	149.2 - 145.06	Germany (Bayern)	S. deichmuelleri (123144)
Late/Upper Hauterivian	132.6 - 125.77	United Kingdom (Surrey)	S. cretacicus (74972)