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Paleodictyopteragroup is extinct

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Relationships after Carpenter (1992)
Containing group: Paleodictyopteroidea

Introduction

Upper Carboniferous to Permian.

Other Names for Paleodictyoptera

References

Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. Volume 3 of Part R, Arthropoda 4 of Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America.

Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Studies of North American Carboniferous insects. 8. New Palaeodictyoptera from Kansas, U.S.A. Psyche 99(2-3):141-146.

Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Studies on North American Carboniferous insects. 9. A new species of Eubleptidae from Mazon Creek (Palaeodictyoptera). Psyche 99(2-3):147-152.

Handlirsch, A. 1904. Les Insectes houillers de la Belgique. Memoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:3-20.

Kukalová, J.  1969.  Revisional study of the Order Palaeodictyoptera in the Upper Carboniferous shales of Commentry, France.  Part I.  Psyche 76:163-215.

Kukalová, J.  1969.  Revisional study of the Order Palaeodictyoptera in the Upper Carboniferous shales of Commentry, France.  Part II.  Psyche 76:439-487.

Kukalová, J.  1970.  Revisional study of the Order Palaeodictyoptera in the Upper Carboniferous shales of Commentry, France.  Part III.  Psyche 77(1):1-44.

Labandeira, C. C., and T. L. Phillips. 1996. Insect fluid-feeding on upper Pennsylvanian tree ferns (Palaeodictyoptera, Marattiales) and the early history of the piercing-and-sucking functional feeding group. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 89(2):157-183.

Woodward, H. 1876. On a remarkable fossil orthopterous insect from the coalmeasures of Scotland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 32:60-65.

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Scientific Name Haplophlebium barnesi
Location Nova Scotia
Reference Nicholson, H. A. 1897. Ancient Life-History of the Earth. D. Appleton and Company, New York.
Creator J. Walker
Acknowledgements after Dawson
Specimen Condition Fossil -- Period: Carboniferous
Body Part wing
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