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Prehistoric insect stubs (3 C, 161 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric insects" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Late Carboniferous (approximately 300 million years ago). It is a member of the extinct order Meganisoptera, which are closely related to and resemble dragonflies and damselflies (with dragonflies, damselflies and meganisopterans being part of the broader group Odonatoptera).
The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period one lineage of insects evolved flight, the first animals to do so. [1] The oldest insect fossil has been proposed to be Rhyniognatha hirsti, estimated to be 400 million years old, but the insect identity of the fossil has been contested. [3]
Paleozoic insects of North America (8 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric insects of North America" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Scale model of a meganisopteran. [a]Controversy has prevailed as to how insects of the Carboniferous period were able to grow so large. The way oxygen is diffused through the insect's body via its tracheal breathing system (see Respiratory system of insects) puts an upper limit on body size, which prehistoric insects seem to have well exceeded.
Arthropleura (Greek for 'jointed ribs') is an extinct genus of massive myriapod that lived in what is now Europe and North America around 345 to 290 million years ago, [2] [4] from the Viséan stage of the lower Carboniferous Period to the Sakmarian stage of the lower Permian Period.
Pages in category "Prehistoric insect families" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Prehistoric insects by geological period. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C. Cenozoic insects (5 C, 6 P) M.