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    Rhyniognatha is an extinct genus of arthropod of disputed placement. It has been considered in some analyses as the oldest insect known, as well as possibly...
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    hexapod affinities had been disputed. An iconic example is the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti, dated at 396 to 407 million years ago, its mandibles are thought...
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  • first animals to do so. The oldest insect fossil has been proposed to be Rhyniognatha hirsti, estimated to be 400 million years old, but the insect identity...
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    have record of Crussolum, and possible scutigeromorph head material Rhyniognatha is known, which was once considered as the oldest insect. Three species...
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  • segments which suggest the type specimen is part of the abdomen. Unlike Rhyniognatha and Strudiella, its interpretation as insect is not questioned yet, but...
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  • Heterocrania, and supposed larval insect mouthparts, later redescribed as Rhyniognatha hirsti in 1928 and considered as an insect or myriapod. Rhyniella grew...
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  • THEN it can only be ancestral relations that associate the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti with the modern monarch butterfly as representatives, separated...
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    : 399  Even though the oldest possible insect fossil is the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti, estimated at 396–407 million years old, it possessed dicondylic...
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    is Delitzschala, a Palaeodictyopteran from the Lower Carboniferous; Rhyniognatha is older, from the Early Devonian, but it is uncertain if it had wings...
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    entomology textbooks. Most of fossil records of Devonian insects like Rhyniognatha or Leverhulmia are questionable, and the early fossil records of insects...
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    Bologna). Fossil that is sometimes considered as oldest known insect, Rhyniognatha hirsti named by Robert John Tillyard. Alexander Kirilow Drenowski The...
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  • published by Hu et al. (2017). A study on the phylogenetic relationships of Rhyniognatha hirsti is published by Haug & Haug (2017) who consider this taxon to...
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