Perforissidae is an extinct family of
planthoppers. They are considered to belong to the group of "
Cixiidae-like" planthoppers. Species are known from the Early to Late Cretaceous of Eurasia, North America and South America. The family was named by Shcherbakov in 2007
Taxonomy
* †subfamily Cixitettiginae
Shcherbakov 2007
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Aafrita''
Szwedo and Azar 2013 Lebanese amber
Lebanese amber is fossilized resin found in Lebanon and southwest Syria. It dates back approximately 130-125 million years to the Barremian of the Early Cretaceous. It formed on what was then the northern coast of Gondwana, believed to be a tropica ...
,
Barremian
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Cixitettix''
Shcherbakov 2007 Taimyr amber Taymyr or Taimyr may refer to:
Places
*Taymyr Peninsula, a peninsula in Siberia
*Taymyr Gulf
*Taymyra, a river in the Taymyr Peninsula
*Lake Taymyr
*Taymyr Island, an island in the Kara Sea
*Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, a former federal subject of Rus ...
, Russia,
Santonian
The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. The ...
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Foveopsis''
Shcherbakov 2007 Burmese amber, Myanmar,
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
*** †''Foveopsis fennahi''
Shcherbakov 2007
*** †''Foveopsis heteroidea''
Zhang et al. 2017
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Iberofoveopsis''
Peñalver and Szwedo 2010 San Just amber,
Escucha Formation
The Escucha Formation is a geological formation in La Rioja and Teruel provinces of northeastern Spain whose strata date back to the late Aptian to middle Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have bee ...
,
Albian
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Lanlakawa''
Luo et al. 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
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Tsaganema''
Shcherbakov 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia,
Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous Epoch or Series and encompasses the time from 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma to 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma (million years ago), a ...
* †subfamily Perforissinae
Shcherbakov 2007
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Cretargus''
Shcherbakov 2007 Taimyr amber, Russia, Santonian
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Perforissus''
Shcherbakov 2007 New Jersey amber
New Jersey Amber, sometimes called Raritan amber, is amber found in the Raritan and Magothy Formations of the Central Atlantic (Eastern) coast of the United States. It is dated to the Late Cretaceous, Turonian age, based on pollen analysis of th ...
,
Turonian
* †''
Aonikenkissus'' Petrulevicius et al. 2014
Mata Amarilla Formation
The Mata Amarilla Formation is a fossiliferous formation of the Austral Basin in southern Patagonia, Argentina. The formation consists of sediments deposited during the Middle Cenomanian, dated to 96.94 to 95.52 Ma. The middle section of the fo ...
, Argentina, Cenomanian
References
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Fulgoromorpha
Prehistoric insect families