Caloneurodea
Caloneurodea is an extinct order of polyneopteran neopteran insects in the superorder Orthopterida. Caloneurodea is known from fossils found in North America, Europe, Russia, and Asia and had a paleogeographic range confined to Laurussia.

Eduard Solà · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PanorthopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 62 million years on record.
The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
92 occurrences of Caloneurodea on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
92 occurrences- Carboniferous41%
- Permian59%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
21 formations
- Wellington Formation20
- Commentry Shales Formation13
- Iva-Gora Beds Formation9
- Bursum Formation6
- Salagou Formation5
- Koshelevka Formation4
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The named rock units Caloneurodea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caloneurodea and its relatives
PermianWhere Caloneurodea and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,456 taxa- Euthygramma parallellum8 sites
- Artinska clara7 sites
- Lemmatophora typa7 sites
- Lisca minuta7 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta7 sites
- Permopsylla americana7 sites
- Petromantis rossica7 sites
- Artinska ovata6 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari6 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum6 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis6 sites
- Protohymen permianus6 sites
- Agetopanorpa ornata5 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus5 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus5 sites
- Delopterum minutum5 sites
- Jurina marginata5 sites
- Lecorium elongatum5 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum5 sites
- Olgaephilus emendatus5 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum5 sites
- Parablattelytron subincisum5 sites
- Permocicadopsis aberrans5 sites
- Permosialis paucinervis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Caloneurodea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
46 references- The extinct order Caloneurodea (Insecta: Pterygota: Panorthoptera): Wing venation, systematic and phylogenetic relationships11
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 9. The orders Neuroptera, Raphidiodea, Caloneurodea and Protorthoptera (Probnisidae), with additional Protodonata and Megasecoptera10
- Important new insect fossils from Carrizo Arroyo and the Permo-Carboniferous faunal boundary6
- Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part V. The family Euthygrammidae and its relationships (with the description of a new genus and family from Chekarda)6
- Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten4
- Insekten-Funde aus dem Westfalium D (Ober-Karbon) des Piesberges bei Osnabrück (Deutschland). Teil 2: Neoptera3
- Revision of American Paleozoic insects3
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains primaires. Coup d'oeil rapide sur la fauna entomologique des terrains paléozoïques3
- A new Caloneurodea family (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) increases the insect palaeodiversity of the middle Permian Salagou Formation (southern France)2
- Insects in the Red Middle Permian of southern France: first Protanisoptera (Odonatoptera) and new Caloneurodea (Panorthoptera), with biostratigraphical implications2
- New Middle Permian insects from Salagou Formation of the Lodève Basin in southern France (Insecta: Pterygota)2
- New fossil insects (Insecta: Caloneurida, Hypoperlida, Palaeomanteida, Jurinida) from the Middle and Upper Permian of European Russia2
Each of the 92 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 34 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Caloneurodea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Eduard Solà
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Caloneurodea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPanorthoptera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martynov 1938