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Group Work (Marina, Morgan and Jason)

Section to transcribe in Taxonomy of commonly fossilized invertebrates under "arthropod"

• Subphylum Hexapoda
  • Class Insecta (insects, best preserved in amber)
    • Order Zygentoma (Silverfish)
    • Order Meganisoptera (Extinct order that include griffinflies)
    • Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, locust and crickets)
    • Order Blattaria (Cockroaches)
    • Order Odonata (Dragonflies and damselflies)
      • Suborder Anisoptera (Dragonflies)
      • Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)
    • Order Hymenoptera (Ants, wasps and bees)
      • Family Formicidae (Ants)
    • Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
    • Order Diptera (True flies)
      • Family Asilidae (Robberflies)
      • Family Tipulidae (Craneflies)
    • Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
      • Family Curculionidae (Weevils)
    • Order Hemiptera (True bugs)
    • Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
    • Order Neuroptera (Lacewings, mantidflies and antlions)
    • Order Dermaptera (Earwigs)
• Subphylum Chelicerata

• Subphylum Echinozoa (mobile echinoderms) – 89 percent of all documented species of Echinozoa are now extinct
  • Class Echinoidea (echinoids or sea urchins) – See Echinozoa above
    • Order Clypeasteroida
    • Order Camarodonta

Class Stenolaemata / Gymnolaemata [!] (mostly marine, calcareous bryozoans)

• Order Cheilostomata [!] (living, rimmed-mouthed moss animals)
• Order Cyclostomatida (uncontracted, round-mouthed bryozoans including fossil Stomatopora)
• Order Cystoporata [†] (extinct, minor group of moss animals)
• Order Trepostomata [†] [!] (changed-mouthed bryozoans such as extinct Constellaria and Monticulipora)
• Order Cryptostomata [†] [!] (round hidden-mouthed bryozoans such as Archimedes, Fenestrellina and Rhombopora)
• Order Ctenostomata [†] (uncommon, comb-mouthed bryozoans)

Class Phylactolaemata (living, fresh-water bryozoans)

Super-phylum of Lophotrochozoa / Protostomia # 1

(lophotrochozoan bilaterians, such as flatworms, ribbon worms, lophophorates, and molluscs)

Phylum Platyhelminthes

• Class Turbellaria (free living flatworms)
  • Order Neorhabdocoela (marine and freshwater flatworms)

Paleoecological methods

Zygospira modesta, atrypid brachiopods, preserved in their original positions on a trepostome bryozoan; Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) of southeastern Indiana

The aim of paleoecology is to build the most detailed model possible of the life environment of previously living organisms found today as fossils. The process of reconstructing past environments requires the use of archives (e.g., sediment sequences), proxies (e.g., the micro or mega-fossils and other sediment characteristics that provide the evidence of the biota and the physical environment), and chronology (e.g., obtaining absolute (or relative) dating of events in the archive). Such reconstruction takes into consideration complex interactions among environmental factors such as temperatures, food supplies, and degree of solar illumination. Often much of this information is lost or distorted by the fossilization process or diagenesis of the enclosing sediments, making interpretation difficult.

Some other proxies for reconstructing past environments include charcoal and pollen, which synthesize fire and vegetation data, respectively. Both of these alternates can be found in lakes and peat settings, and can provide moderate to high resolution information . These are well studied methods often utilized in the paleoecological field.

The environmental complexity factor is normally tackled through statistical analysis of the available numerical data (quantitative paleontology or paleostatistics), while the study of post-mortem processes is known as the field of taphonomy.

Sources for article sections

For Phylum Platyhelminthes, and Class Phylactolaemata source: https://rd-springer-com.prxy4.ursus.maine.edu/article/10.1007/s10750-004-1873-3

For Zygentoma, MEganisoptera, orthopteran, blattaria and odonatan use source: www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/insect.html

For Hymenoptera, Trichoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera and Dermaptera use source: https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=A8B21CC3-155D-451F-67B5FEA59657006E

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Topics

Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates: Phylogeny goes to Insecta class, but does not go any further than that. Can add orders under insecta. These orders can be wiki linked for articles available.

Evolution of insects: Could add a section for the appearance of morphological traits when they were first seen (flight, metamorphis, eusocial behavior etc.)

-Butterfly source: van Eldijk, Timo J. B.; Wappler, Torsten; Strother, Paul K.; van der Weijst, Carolien M. H.; Rajaei, Hossein; Visscher, Henk; van de Schootbrugge, Bas (10 January 2018). "A Triassic-Jurassic window into the evolution of Lepidoptera". Science Advances. 4 (1). doi:10.1126/sciadv.1701568.

-Eusocial source: http://www.entomologa.ru/outline/201.htm

Article Evaluation: Evolution of Insects

• Missing many citations
• Kind of a confusing read, even for someone that is familiar with the jargon used
• Grammatical errors
• Article is inflated with unnecessary words and in some cases, bias.
• Links are working
• Conversations in talk page on how jargon heavy the article is. No large changes have been made for years
• Article is focused on insect evolution but also tries included insects represented in paleo times. This could be divided into a new page to shorten the articles. This would remove unnecessary info.