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Protereismidae (disused)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Protereismidae

Taxonomy

Protereismidae was named by Handlirsch (1919). Its type is Protereisma.

It was corrected as Protereismatidae by Handlirsch (1919), Carpenter (1933), Zimmerman (1962), Hubbard and Kukalová-Peck (1980), Carpenter (1992), Willmann (2007), Staniczek et al. (2011) and Sroka et al. (2014).

It was assigned to Ephemerida by Handlirsch (1919) and Handlirsch (1922); to Plectoptera by Martynov (1928), Martynov (1932) and Carpenter (1933); to Ephemeroptera by Zimmerman (1962) and Carpenter (1992); to Reticulata by Willmann (2007); to Protereismatoidea by Hubbard and Kukalová-Peck (1980) and Staniczek et al. (2011); and to Permoplectoptera by Sroka et al. (2014).

Synonyms

Therates planus was named by Sellards (1907). It is an impression. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Esca, Therates.

It was recombined as Esca plana by Handlirsch (1922); it was considered a nomen vanum by Carpenter (1933).
Kukalovidae was named by Demoulin (1970).

It was synonymized subjectively with Protereismatidae by Carpenter (1979) and Carpenter (1992).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1907	Therates planus Sellards p. 354
1919	Protereismatidae Handlirsch p. 573
1919	Protereismidae Handlirsch p. 573
1922	Protereismidae Handlirsch p. 60
1922	Esca plana Handlirsch p. 61
1928	Protereismidae Martynov p. 8
1932	Protereismidae Martynov
1933	Protereismatidae Carpenter
1962	Protereismatidae Zimmerman p. 1327
1970	Kukalovidae Demoulin p. 6
1980	Protereismatidae Hubbard and Kukalová-Peck p. 29
1992	Protereismatidae Carpenter
2007	Protereismatidae Willmann p. 115
2011	Protereismatidae Staniczek et al.
2014	Protereismatidae Sroka et al. p. 979

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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	()
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Panephemeroptera	Crampton 1928
—	Ephemerida	(Latreille 1810)
—	Heptabranchia
order	Ephemeroptera	Hyatt and Arms 1890
family	Protereismidae
family	Protereismidae

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. †Protereismidae Handlirsch 1919

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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: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Roadian or 290.10000 to 268.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Artinskian	290.1 - 279.3	USA (Kansas)	Protereismidae indet. (151412)
Roadian	272.3 - 268.8	Russian Federation (Kazan)	Protereismidae indet. (116803)
Roadian	272.3 - 268.8	Russian Federation (Arkangelsk)	Protereismidae indet. (104993)