Fulgoridiidae are an extinct family of Mesozoic

planthopper A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...

s. They are the earliest group of planthoppers known, and appear to be a

paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...

assemblage ancestral to living planthoppers. The majority of known members of the family lived in the Jurassic period, though the group also includes one Cretaceous taxon. All currently known species are from Eurasia.

Taxonomy

* †'' Aulieezidium'' Szwedo 2009 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian * †'' Cixiites'' Handlirsch 1906 Green Series, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Compactofulgoridium'' Bode 1953A. Bode. 1953. Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias. ''Palaeontographica Abteilung A'' 103:1-375

Posidonia Shale The Posidonia Shale (german: Posidonienschiefer, also called Schistes Bitumineux in Luxembourg) geologically known as the Sachrang Formation, is an Early Jurassic (Toarcian) geological formation of southwestern and northeast Germany, northern Swit ...

, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Conofulgoridium'' Bode 1953 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Elasmoscelidium'' Martynov 1926A. V. Martynov. 1926. Jurassic fossil Insect from Turkestan. 6. Homoptera and Psocoptera. ''Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR'' 20(13-14):1349-1366 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian * †'' Eofulgoridium'' Martynov 1937A. V. Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera. ''Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta'' 7:1-178 Kyzyl-Kiya, Kyrgyzstan, Pliensbachian, Sangonghe Formation, China, Toarcian * †'' Elasmoscelidium'' Martynov 1926 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian * †'' Fenghuangor'' Li and Szwedo 2011

Daohugou The Haifanggou Formation (), also known as the Jiulongshan Formation (), is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou () village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. The formation consists of coarse conglomerates ...

, China, Callovian * †'' Fulgoridiella'' Becker-Migdisova 1962

Dzhil Formation Dzhil may refer to: * Jil, Armenia * Cil, Azerbaijan Cil (also, Kazımlı Cil and Dzhil’) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It had a population of 2,279 as of 2007. Notable natives * Allahshukur Pashazadeh, ...

, Kyrgyzstan,

Hettangian The Hettangian is the earliest age and lowest stage of the Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (My ...

* †'' Fulgoridium'' Handlirsch 1906 Posidonia Shale, Green Series, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Fulgoridulum'' Handlirsch 1939 Posidonia Shale, Green Series, Germany, Toarcian,

Beacon Limestone Formation The Beacon Limestone Formation, historically known as the Junction Bed, is a formation of early Jurassic age (Pliensbachian–Toarcian). It lies above the Dyrham Formation and below the Bridport Sand Formation. It forms part of the Lias Group. It ...

, United Kingdom, Toarcian * †'' Fulgoropsis'' Martynov 1937 Kyzyl-Kiya, Kyrgyzstan, Pliensbachian * †'' Margaroptilon'' Handlirsch 1906 Posidonia Shale, Green Series, Germany, Toarcian, Whitby Mudstone, United Kingdom, Toarcian * †''"Mesocixiella" fennahi'' Whalley 1985

Charmouth Mudstone Formation The Charmouth Mudstone Formation is a geological formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the early part of the Jurassic period (Sinemurian–Pliensbachian). It forms part of the lower Lias Group. It is most prominently exposed at ...

, United Kingdom, Sinemurian * †'' Metafulgoridium'' Handlirsch 1939 Posidonia Shale, Green Series, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Parafulgoridium'' Handlirsch 1939 Green Series, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Procerofulgoridium'' Bode 1953 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Productofulgoridium'' Bode 1953 Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Stonymetopus'' Poinar, Brown & Bourgoin 2022 Burmese amber,

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, Cretaceous ( Albian or

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 ...

) * †'' Tetrafulgoria'' Doweld 2013 (= ''Tetragonidium'' Bode 1953) Posidonia Shale, Germany, Toarcian * †'' Valvifulgoria'' Lin 1986Q. B. Lin. 1986. Early Mesozoic fossil insects from South China. ''Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B'' 170:1-112 Shiti Formation, China, Bajocian

References

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