Palaeontinidae
Extinct family of true bugs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Palaeontinidae, commonly known as giant cicadas, is an extinct family of cicadomorphs. They existed from the Late Triassic to the Early Cretaceous. The family contains around 30 to 40 genera and around a hundred species.[1]
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Palaeontinidae | |
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Synapocossus sciacchitanoae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Infraorder: | Cicadomorpha |
Superfamily: | †Palaeontinoidea |
Family: | †Palaeontinidae Handlirsch, 1906 |
Type genus | |
†Palaeontina Butler, 1873 | |
Genera | |
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Synonyms | |
†CicadomorphidaeEvans, 1956 |
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