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Xenopteraidae

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Xenopteraidae

Taxonomy
Xenopteridae was named by Pinto (1986). It is not extant.

It was corrected as Xenopteraidae by Ross et al. (2013) and Nel et al. (2019).

It was assigned to Megasecoptera by Pinto (1986), Ross et al. (2013) and Nel et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Xenopteridae Pinto p. 25
2013Xenopteraidae Ross et al. p. 168
2019Xenopteraidae Nel et al. p. 436

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
Megasecopteromorpha
orderMegasecoptera
familyXenopteraidae()
familyXenopteraidae()

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. †Xenopteraidae Pinto 1986
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G. †Sinitshenkovae Nel et al. 2019
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Sinitshenkovae gallica Nel et al. 2019
Sinitshenkovae huenickeni Pinto and de Ornellas 1978
G. †Xenoptera Pinto 1986
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Xenoptera riojaensis Pinto 1986
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 Bashkirian to the top of the Kungurian or 323.20000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bashkirian323.2 - 315.2Argentina (La Rioja) Xenoptera riojaensis (108150)
Kasimovian - Gzhelian307.0 - 298.9Argentina (San Luis) Philiasptilon huenickeni (35057)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3France (Languedoc) Sinitshenkovae gallica (105045)