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Common Walkingsticks

Heteronemiidae

developmental mode

Insect Development
hemimetabolous
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/hemimetabolous

Definition: Development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis, resulting in a gradual change in body form with each molt, without a pupal stage.

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extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database

5.333 million years ago

(max)
Paleobiology Database
pliocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pliocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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habitat

Paleobiology Database
terrestrial
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000446

Definition: A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.

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(adult)

last appearance

Paleobiology Database

2.588 million years ago

(min)

motility

Paleobiology Database
actively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile

Definition: uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

1

skeleton contains

Paleobiology Database
chitin
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_17029

Definition: An aminoglycan consisting of beta-(1->4)-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues.

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visual system

Bitsch 2005
ocelli
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001758

Definition: small simple eyes, found in many invertebrates, usually consisting of a few sensory cells and a single lens

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Bitsch 2005
compound eyes
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000018

Definition: A light sensing organ composed of multiple ommatidia, visual units consisting of a limited number of rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells, cornea-secreting epithelial cells, interommatidial pigment cells, and sometimes crystalline cone cells

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wing morphology

Insect Wings
has wings
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/hasWings

Definition: Wings are present.

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(adult)