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Ponopterix
Taxonomy
Ponopterix was named by Vršanský and Grimaldi (1999). Its type is Ponopterix axelrodi. It is the type genus of Ponopterixidae.
It was assigned to Dictyoptera by Kirejtshuk et al. (2014); to Ponopterixidae by Nel et al. (2014); and to Umenocoleidae by Vršanský and Grimaldi (1999), Vršanský (2003), Vršanský (2004), Bechly (2007), Lee (2016), Luo et al. (2022) and Luo et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Dictyoptera by Kirejtshuk et al. (2014); to Ponopterixidae by Nel et al. (2014); and to Umenocoleidae by Vršanský and Grimaldi (1999), Vršanský (2003), Vršanský (2004), Bechly (2007), Lee (2016), Luo et al. (2022) and Luo et al. (2022).
Species
P. axelrodi (syn. P. maxima) (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Ponopterix Vršanský and Grimaldi p. 171 |
| 2003 | Ponopterix Vršanský p. 16 |
| 2004 | Ponopterix Vršanský p. 51 |
| 2007 | Ponopterix Bechly p. 246 |
| 2014 | Ponopterix Kirejtshuk et al. p. 590 |
| 2014 | Ponopterix Nel et al. p. 546 |
| 2016 | Ponopterix Lee p. 435 |
| 2022 | Ponopterix Luo et al. |
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G. †Ponopterix Vršanský and Grimaldi 1999
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†Ponopterix axelrodi Vršanský and Grimaldi 1999
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Invalid names: Ponopterix maxima Bechly 2007 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Middle Albian or 122.46000 to 105.30000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Aptian | Brazil (Ceará) | P. axelrodi (122352 138921) P. maxima (140371) P. maxima, P. axelrodi (122557) | |
| Late/Upper Aptian | Brazil (Ceara) | P. axelrodi (34899) | |
| Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian | China (Gansu) | P. sp. 1, P. sp. 2 (224254) |