Palaeontinoidea
| Palaeontinoidea Temporal range: Upper Permian to Middle Cretaceous |
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| Fossil forewing of Mesogereon superbum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Cicadomorpha |
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†Palaeontinoidea Handlirsch, 1906 |
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Palaeontinoidea is an extinct superfamily of cicadomorph hemipteran insects. This superfamily contains three families.
Palaeontinoids were comparatively large, cicada-like insects that existed from the Upper Permian to the Middle Cretaceous (around 260.4 to 112.0 million years ago).
The three families classified under Palaeontinoidea, along with their age range and collection sites, are the following:
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