Dinopanorpidae

Dinopanorpidae is a small family of extinct insects in the order Mecoptera (scorpionflies) that contains two genera and seven species.

[1] The genus Dinokanaga is known exclusively from fossil sites in western North America, which date to the Ypresian and constitute the Okanagan Highlands paleobiotic communities.

[1] As most of the species are known from a limited number of compression wing fossils, few data on the general morphology of the family are available.

The wings of Dinopanorpidae species are generally long with numerous reticulated cross veins and, when preserved, specimens show the coloration to have been mostly dark with light to clear patterning.

[1] The Okanagan Highlands flora is considered a possible antecedent of the modern eastern hardwood forests of North America.