Chaeteessidae is a family of
praying mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate ...
es. It contains a single extant genus, ''
Chaeteessa'', native to South America which is thought to be the most primitive and earliest diverging lineage of living mantises. Fossil genera are known from the
Paleogene
The Paleogene Period ( ; also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma. It is the fir ...
of Eurasia and North America.
Fossil genera
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Arvernineura'' Piton 1940
Menat Formation, France,
Paleocene
The Paleocene ( ), or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), ...
(
Selandian
The Selandian is a stage in the Paleocene. It spans the time between . It is preceded by the Danian and followed by the Thanetian. Sometimes the Paleocene is subdivided in subepochs, in which the Selandian forms the "middle Paleocene".
Stratig ...
)
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Louispitonia'' Schubnel and Nel 2019 (=''Archaeophlebia'' Piton 1940) Menat Formation, France, Paleocene (Selandian)
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Lithophotina'' Cockerell 1908
Florissant Formation, Colorado, United States,
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...
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Megaphotina'' Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993 Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya,
Primorsky, Russia, Eocene
Indeterminate species are also known from French
Oise amber
Oise amber () is a type of amber found near the Oise river near Creil in northern France. Oise amber is around 53 million years old, dating to the Early Eocene (Ypresian). Oise amber is softer than Baltic amber, although Oise amber is older ...
, dating to the Eocene (
Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age (geology), age or lowest stage (stratigraphy), stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between , is preceded by the Thanetian Age (part of the Paleocene) and is followed by th ...
)
See also
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List of mantis genera and species
The following list of mantis genera and species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here.
The insect Order (biology), order Mantodea consists of over 2,400 species of mantises in about 460 ...
References
Mantodea
Mantodea families
Extant Paleocene first appearances
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