Sociala
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Blattodea |
| Infraorder: | Isoptera |
| Family: | Socialidae |
| Genus: | Sociala Vršanský, 2010 |
| Type species | |
| Sociala perlucida Vršanský, 2010 | |
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Sociala is an extinct genus of stem-termite which lived from the mid-late Jurassic (Callovian to Kimmeridgian)[1] to the early Cretaceous (Albian).[2] This genus was named by Peter Vršanský in 2010, with the type species being Sociala perlucida from the Albian of France.[2] In 2024, an earlier species, Sociala borat, was named from the Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan, which would make this species the earliest known termite.[1]
Phylogeny
[edit]Cladogram after Vršanský (2010).[2]
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References
[edit]- 1 2 Vršanský, P. (2024). "Late Mesozoic cockroaches s.l. from the Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan" (PDF). AMBA Projekty. 14 (1): 1–700.
- 1 2 3 Peter Vršanský (2010). "Cockroach as the Earliest Eusocial Animal". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 793–808. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..793V. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00261.x.
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