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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Family: | Socialidae |
| Genus: | Sociala Vršanský, 2010 |
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| Sociala perlucida Vršanský, 2010
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Sociala is an extinct genus of stem-termite which lived from the mid-late Jurassic (Callovian to Kimmeridgian)1 to the early Cretaceous (Albian).2 This genus was named by Peter Vršanský in 2010, with the type species being Sociala perlucida from the Albian of France.2 In 2024, an earlier species, Sociala borat, was named from the Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan, which would make this species the earliest known termite.1
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Vršanský (2010).2
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References
References
- Vršanský, P. (2024). "Late Mesozoic cockroaches s.l. from the Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan" (PDF). AMBA Projekty. 14 (1): 1–700.
- Peter Vršanský (2010). "Cockroach as the Earliest Eusocial Animal". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 793–808. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..793V. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00261.x.