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Palaeontinoidea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Auchenorrhyncha

Rank
  
Superfamily

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Infraorder
  
Cicadomorpha

Palaeontinoidea

Similar
  
Tibiceninae, Tettigarctidae, Tanna, Empress cicada, Megapomponia

Palaeontinoidea is an extinct superfamily of cicadomorph hemipteran insects. This superfamily contains three families.

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Description

Palaeontinoids were comparatively large, cicada-like insects that existed from the Upper Permian to the Middle Cretaceous (around 260.4 to 112.0 million years ago).

Subdivisions

The three families classified under Palaeontinoidea, along with their age range and collection sites, are the following:

  • Mesogereonidae Tillyard, 1921
    • Upper Triassic; Australia and South Africa. Contains two monophyletic genera.
  • Dunstaniidae Tillyard, 1916
    • Upper Permian to Lower Jurassic; South Africa, Australia, France, Central Asia, and China.
  • Palaeontinidae Handlirsch, 1906
    • Upper Triassic to Middle Cretaceous; Brazil, China, Russia, Germany, the Transbaikal region, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Contains around 30 to 40 genera and about a hundred species.

    References

    Palaeontinoidea Wikipedia
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