Meganisoptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Superordo: Odonatoptera
Cladus: Palaeodonatoptera
Cladus: Plesiodonatoptera
Cladus: Apodonatoptera
Cladus: Paneodonatoptera
Cladus: Neodonatoptera
Cladus: Euodonatoptera
Ordo: †Meganisoptera
Subordines: †Meganeuromorpha
Familia incertae sedis: †Alanympha – †Dragonympha – †Ephemerites – †Palaeotherates

†Aulertupidae – †Kohlwaldiidae – †Meganeuridae – †Namurotypidae – †Paralogidae

Meganisoptera Martynov, 1932: 17

• Protodonata Brongniart, 1885: 65 [as family]

• Brongniart, C. 1885. Les insectes fossiles des terrains primaires. Coup d'oeil rapide sur la fauna entomologique des terrains paléozoïques. Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Sciences Naturelles de Rouen 21(3): 50–68. BHL.
• Martynov, A.V. 1932. New Permian Palaeoptera with the discussion of some problems of their evolution. Trudy Paleozoologicheskogo Instituta 1: 1–44. Full volume (DjVu).

• Brauckmann, C. & Zessin, W. 1989. Neue Meganeuridae aus dem Namurium von Hagen-Vorhalle (BDR) und die Phylogenie des Meganisoptera. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.) 36(1–3): 177–215. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.19890360127 . Reference page. 
• Kukalová-Peck, J. 2009. Carboniferous protodonatoid dragonfly nymphs and the synapomorphies of Odonatoptera and Ephemeroptera (Insecta: Palaeoptera). Palaeodiversity 2: 169–198. PDF.
• Nel, A., Béthoux, O., Bechly, G., Martínez-Delclòs, X. & Papier, F. 2002 ("2001"). The Permo-Triassic Odonatoptera of the ‘protodonate’ grade (Insecta: Odonatoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 37(4): 501–525. Gallica, Academia.edu, ResearchGate . Reference page.  [Kargalotypidae excluded from Meganisoptera]
• Nel, A., Fleck, G., Garrouste, R., Gand, G., Lapeyrie, J., Bybee, S.M. & Prokop, J. 2009. Revision of Permo-Carboniferous griffenflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera) based upon new species and redescription of selected poorly known taxa from Eurasia. Palaeontographica (A) 289: 89–121. DOI: 10.1127/pala/289/2009/89 . Reference page. 
• Zessin, W. & Brauckmann, C. 2010. Aulertupus tembrocki n. gen. et sp. (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Aulertupidae n. fam.) aus dem Ober-Karbon von Mazon Creek, Illinois (USA). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 13(2): 36–43. PDF. Reference page. 

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