Clatrotitan
Extinct species of winged insect
Clatrotitan Temporal range: Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Forewing of Clatrotitan andersoni (Scale bar: 10 mm) | |
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Speculative diagrammatic reconstruction, missing elements reconstructed after Gigatitan | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | †Titanoptera |
Family: | †Mesotitanidae |
Genus: | †Clatrotitan McKeown, 1937 |
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Clatrotitan andersoni McKeown, 1937 | |
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Clatrotitan is an extinct genus of titanopteran insect, known from the Triassic of Australia.[1] It is originally described from a species, C. andersoni, then later study considered that Mesotitan scullyi as species of Clatrotitan too. But another study synonymized Mesotitan and Clatrotitan. A study in 2021 proposed to keep the two genera Clatrotitan and Mesotitan separated.[2] C. andersoni had a large forewing, which was 13.8 centimetres (5.4 in) long.[3]
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Clatrotitan". www.fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ Schubnel, Thomas; Legendre, Frédéric; Roques, Patrick; Garrouste, Romain; Cornette, Raphaël; Perreau, Michel; Perreau, Naïl; Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure; Nel, André (2021-07-08). "Sound vs. light: wing-based communication in Carboniferous insects". Communications Biology. 4 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02281-0. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 8266802. PMID 34239029. S2CID 235777698.
- ^ McKeown, Keith C. (1937-05-15). "New fossil insect wings (Protohemiptera, family Mesotitanidae)". Records of the Australian Museum. 20 (1): 31–37. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.20.1937.565. ISSN 0067-1975.[permanent dead link]
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- Kingdom:Animalia
- Phylum:Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Infraclass:Neoptera
- Cohort:Polyneoptera
Mesotitanidae |
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Paratitanidae |
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Gigatitanidae |
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Theiatitanidae |
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![Clatrotitan scullyi](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Clatrotitan_diagrammatic.png/70px-Clatrotitan_diagrammatic.png)
![Gigatitan vulgaris](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Gigatitan_vulgaris_reconstruction.png/105px-Gigatitan_vulgaris_reconstruction.png)