×
Members of our FaceBook Community Are Welcome to Register (08 Sep 2016)

For members of the community that are following our FaceBook Page, we invite them to Register as members of the Forum if they wish to post or discuss any aspect of the topic.

unanswered PROTORTHOPTERA (PROTORTHOPTERANS) ORDER DESCRIPTION

More
04 Oct 2016 21:52 #197

The Protorthoptera are an extinct order of Palaeozoic insects, and represent a wastebasket taxon and paraphyletic assemblage of basal neoptera. They appear during the Middle Carboniferous (late Serpukhovian or early Bashkirian), making them among the earliest known winged insects in the fossil record. Pronotal lobes may be expanded to form a shield. The group includes the ancestors of all other polyneopterous insects.

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Time to create page: 0.169 seconds