Paoliida Temporal range:
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Fossils of Paoliida. A: Zdenekia silesiensis; B: Darekia sanguinea; C, D1, D2: Paoliidae gen. et sp. indet. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Cohort: | Polyneoptera |
Order: | †Paoliida Handlirsch, 1906 |
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Synonyms | |
Protoptera Rasnitsyn, 1977 |
Paoliida is an extinct order of winged insects that lived in the late Paleozoic. Historically, both their systematic position and composition were controversial – for instance they had been considered as palaeodictyopterans, as basal Neoptera, or as stem-group of Pterygota – but recent studies have resolved them as the sister group of Dictyoptera.[1][2][3]