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Winged Insects

Pterygota

extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database
serpukhovian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Serpukhovian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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Paleobiology Database

326.4 million years ago

(max)

last appearance

Paleobiology Database
cenozoic era
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Cenozoic

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

48952

skeleton contains

Paleobiology Database
chitin
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_17029

Definition: An aminoglycan consisting of beta-(1->4)-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues.

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visual system

Bitsch 2005
ocelli
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001758

Definition: small simple eyes, found in many invertebrates, usually consisting of a few sensory cells and a single lens

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Bitsch 2005
compound eyes
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000018

Definition: A light sensing organ composed of multiple ommatidia, visual units consisting of a limited number of rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells, cornea-secreting epithelial cells, interommatidial pigment cells, and sometimes crystalline cone cells

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wing morphology

Insect Wings
has wings
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/hasWings

Definition: Wings are present.

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(adult)