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Mesorthopteridae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6928917	https://www.gbif.org/species/6928917
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	176703	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=176703

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Mesorthopteridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Eoblattida : Mesorthopteridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
order	Eoblattida	Handlirsch 1906
family	Mesorthopteridae	Tillyard 1922

Scientific Name

Mesorthopteridae

Name Published In

Tillyard. 1916. Mesozoic and tertiary insects of Queensland and New South, Wales. Queensland Geological Survey 253:1-47

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mesorthopteridae	family	belongs to Protorthoptera	stated with evidence	Tillyard, 1922
Mesorthopteridae	family	belongs to Protorthoptera	stated without evidence	Tillyard, 1923
Mesorthopteridae	family	belongs to Mantodea	stated with evidence	Riek, 1974
Mesorthopteridae	family	invalid subgroup of Protorthoptera	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Mesorthopteridae	family	belongs to Grylloblattina	stated with evidence	Storozhenko, 1997
Mesorthopteridae	family	belongs to Eoblattida	stated with evidence	Aristov, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Type Specimen

†Mesorthopteridae Tillyard, 1916

Designated By

Tillyard. 1916. Mesozoic and tertiary insects of Queensland and New South, Wales. Queensland Geological Survey 253:1-47

Type Information Source

Grylloblattodea Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. J. Tillyard. 1922. Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 9 Orthoptera, and additions to the Protorthoptera, Odonata, Hemiptera and Planipennia. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47:447-470

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Austroidelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Locustoblattina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Mesoidelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	268 Ma Permian	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Mesorthopterina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Mesorthopteron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Palaeomesorthopteron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Parastenaropodites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	279 Ma Permian	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Paridelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Permorthopteron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Sharovites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Taskanatus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tshermyaninus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1922	Mesorthopteridae Tillyard
1923	Mesorthopteridae Tillyard
1974	Mesorthopteridae Riek p. 20
1997	Mesorthopteridae Storozhenko p. 15
1998	Mesorthopteridae Storozhenko p. 46
2009	Mesorthopteridae Aristov p. 178
2014	Mesorthopteridae Aristov p. 489
2015	Mesorthopteridae Aristov p. 17
2017	Mesorthopteridae Aristov p. 165
2019	Mesorthopteridae Aristov p. 287

References

Tillyard R. J. (1922) Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 9 Orthoptera, and additions to the Protorthoptera, Odonata, Hemiptera and Planipennia, The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47, 447-470

Tillyard R. J. (1923) Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 10 Summary of the Upper Triassic Insect fauna of Ipswich, Q. (With an Appendix describing new Hemiptera and Planipennia), The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48, 481-498

Riek E. F. (1974) Upper Triassic Insects from the Molteno "Formation", South Africa, Palaeontologia Africana 17, 19-31

Storozhenko S. Y. (1997) Classification of the Order Grylloblattida (Insecta), with description of new taxa, Far Eastern Entomologist 42, 1-20

Storozhenko S. Y. (1998) , Sistematika, Filogeniya i Evolyutsiya Grilloblattidovykh Nasekomykh (Insecta: Grylloblattida), 1-207

Aristov D. S. (2009) A New Family of the Order Grylloblattida (Insecta) from the Middle Permian of Russia, Paleontological Journal 43 2, 178-182

Aristov D. S. (2014) New taxa of Mesorthopteridae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Permian of Russia, Paleontological Journal 48, 488-499

Aristov D. S. (2015) Classification of the order Eoblattida (Insecta: Blattidea) with description of new taxa, Far Eastern Entomologist 301, 1-56

Aristov D. S. (2017) New insects (Insecta: Eoblattida, Embiida) from the Permian of Russia and the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan, with observations on the origin of webspinners, Paleontological Journal 51, 161-170

Aristov D. S. (2019) New insects (Insecta: Eoblattida, Reculida) from the Middle Permian of Russia, Paleontological Journal 53, 287-291

Tillyard. 1916. Mesozoic and tertiary insects of Queensland and New South, Wales. Queensland Geological Survey 253:1-47 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Tillyard. 1922. Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 9. Orthoptera, and additions to the Protorthoptera, Odonata, Hemiptera and Planipennia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47:448 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 1996. New Triassic Mesorthopteridae (Insecta, Plecopteroidea, Grylloblattida). 19(1):115-127 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 1998. Sistematika, filogeniya i evolyutsiya grilloblattidovykh (insecta; Grylloblattida) [Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of the grylloblattids (Insecta: Grylloblattida)], Dal' nauka, Vladivostok 132 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 2002. In Rasnitsyn. Infraclass Gryllones. In Rasnitsyn & Quicke [Ed.]. Order Grylloblattida Walker, 1914. History of Insects, Kluwer Academic Publishers 278-283 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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