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Caloneurodea

Caloneurodea is an extinct order of polyneopteran neopteran insects in the superorder Orthopterida. Caloneurodea is known from fossils found in North America, Europe, Russia, and Asia and had a paleogeographic range confined to Laurussia.

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Caloneurodea
Temporal range:
Caloneura dowsoni fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Cohort: Polyneoptera
Order: Caloneurodea
Martynov, 1938
Families
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Caloneurodea is an extinct order of polyneopteran neopteran insects in the superorder Orthopterida.1 Caloneurodea is known from fossils found in North America, Europe, Russia, and Asia and had a paleogeographic range confined to Laurussia.2

Families and genera

Order Caloneurodea

References

References

  1. order †Caloneurodea, Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 20 October 2021)
  2. Huang, D.; Fu, Y.; Lian, X.; Nel, A. (2020). "Sinaspidoneura magnifica nov. gen., nov. sp., first Chinese Caloneurodea (Insecta: Archaeorthoptera)" (PDF). Geobios. 63: 33–37. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.10.003. S2CID 228944827.
  3. Loureiro, J.; Correia, P.; Nel, A.; de Jesus, A. (2010). "Lusitaneura covensis n. gen., n. sp., first Caloneurodea from the Carboniferous of Portugal (Insecta: Pterygota: Panorthoptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 242–246. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697664. S2CID 85401785.