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Paratitan

Insecta - Orthoptera - Paratitanidae

Taxonomy

Paratitan was named by Sharov (1968). Its type is Paratitan libelluloides.

It was assigned to Paratitanidae by Sharov (1968) and Shcherbakov (2011).

Species

P. bispeculum, P. intermedius, P. latispeculum, P. libelluloides (type species), P. longispeculum, P. modestus, P. reductus, P. reliquia, P. venosus

Synonyms

Liquia was named by Béthoux et al. (2010).

It was synonymized subjectively with Paratitan by Shcherbakov (2011).

It was assigned to Palaeodictyoptera by Béthoux et al. (2010).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1968	Paratitan Sharov
2010	Liquia Béthoux et al. p. 13
2011	Paratitan Shcherbakov p. 66

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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

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
order	Orthoptera
suborder	Titanoptera	()
suborder	Mesotitanina	Tillyard 1925
family	Paratitanidae
genus	Paratitan

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. †Paratitan Sharov 1968

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†Paratitan bispeculum Gorochov 2003

†Paratitan intermedius Gorochov 2003

†Paratitan latispeculum Gorochov 2003

†Paratitan libelluloides Sharov 1968

†Paratitan longispeculum Gorochov 2003

†Paratitan modestus Gorochov 2003

†Paratitan reductus Gorochov 2003

†Paratitan reliquia Béthoux et al. 2010

†Paratitan venosus Gorochov 2003

Invalid names: Liquia Béthoux et al. 2010 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

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: Ladinian or 242.00000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ladinian	242.0 - 237.0	Kyrgyzstan	Liquia reliquia (102988)
Ladinian	242.0 - 237.0	Kyrgyzstan (Osh)	P. libelluloides, P. venosus, P. intermedius, P. latispeculum, P. modestus (106088) P. longispeculum, P. bispeculum (110763) P. reductus (105007)