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Mesacridites Riek, 1954 (Middle Triassic; Australia) transferred from Protorthoptera to Orthoptera: Locustavidae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

O. Béthoux  and
A. J. Ross
O. Béthoux
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109,
A. J. Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom,
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The genus Mesacridites Riek, 1954 is so poorly known that Carpenter (1992) considered it as Neoptera order uncertain. Riek (1954) assigned it to the paraphyletic group Protorthoptera, within the family Sthenaropodidae Handlirsch, 1906, a family later synonymized by Burnham (1983) with the Geraridae Scudder, 1885. Sharov (1962, 1991) assigned it to the order Paraplecoptera within the superfamily Liomopteridea, which is within the Protorthoptera in Carpenter's system.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , May 2005 , pp. 607 - 610
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