| Protelytroptera | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Cohort: | Polyneoptera |
| Order: | †Protelytroptera Tillyard, 1931 |
| Families[1][2][3][4] | |
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Protelytroptera is an extinctorder of insects thought to be astem group from which the modernDermaptera evolved. These insects, which resemble modernBlattodea, or cockroaches, are known from thePermian of North America, Europe and Australia, from the fossils of their shell-like forewings and the large, unequal anal fan. None of their fossils are known from theTriassic, when the morphological changes from Protelytroptera to Dermaptera presumably took place.[5]
