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family †Protophasmatidae Brongniart, 1885

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Protophasmida)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations:
  • Brongniart. 1885. Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. Rouen 3 21:50-71, pls.  
  • Carpenter. 1992. In Kaesler [Ed.]. Part R Arthropoda 4. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 130
  • Béthoux. 2003. Journal of Orthoptera Research 12(1):57-62   >> Note: Archaeorthoptera
• Type genus:  Protophasma Brongniart, 1878; priority for family-group names based on Protophasma dates from Protophasmida Brongniart, 1885.  First use as Protophasmatidae by Carpenter, 1992.

• synonym Protophasmida Brongniart, 1885
• synonym Protophasmidae Brongniart, 1885
• genus †Protophasma Brongniart, 1878

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