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Tridactylidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	395814	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=395814

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Tridactylidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Orthopterida	Boudreaux 1979
order	Orthoptera	Olivier 1789
suborder	Caelifera	Ander 1936
infraorder	Tridactylidea	Brullé 1835
superfamily	Tridactyloidea	Brullé 1835
family	Tridactylidae	Brullé 1835

Common Name

pygmy mole cricket

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tridactylidae	family	belongs to Acridodea	stated with evidence	Zeuner, 1941
Tridactylidae	family	belongs to Tridactylidea	stated with evidence	Sharov, 1968
Tridactylidae	family	belongs to Locustopsoidea	stated with evidence	Martins-Neto, 2003
Tridactylidae	family	belongs to Tridactyloidea	stated with evidence	Gorochov et al., 2006
Tridactylidae	family	belongs to Orthoptera	stated with evidence	Azar and Nel, 2008
Tridactylidae	family	belongs to Tridactyloidea	stated with evidence	Song et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Caelifera)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Caelifera)

Vision

well-developed (based on Caelifera)

Diet

grazer, herbivore (based on Caelifera)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Caelifera)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Caelifera)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. A. Brullé. 1835. Tome IX, Orthoptères et Hémiptères. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Traitant de Leur Organiation et de Leurs Moeurs en Général, par M. V. Audouin, et Comprenant Leur Classification et la Description des Espèces, par M. A. Brullé

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dentridactylinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	2	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Mongoloxyinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	5	145 Ma Late Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tridactylinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	2	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cratodactylus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Paraxya ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tridactylus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Xya genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1941	Tridactylidae Zeuner
1968	Tridactylidae Sharov
2003	Tridactylidae Martins-Neto
2006	Tridactylidae Gorochov et al. p. 656
2008	Tridactylidae Azar and Nel
2015	Tridactylidae Song et al.

References

Brullé G. A. Tome IX, Orthoptères et Hémiptères, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Traitant de Leur Organiation et de Leurs Moeurs en Général, par M. V. Audouin, et Comprenant Leur Classification et la Description des Espèces, par M. A. Brullé, 1-225

Zeuner F. E. (1941) The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt. ) Part I, Catantopinae, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 8, 510-522

Sharov A. G. (1968) Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118, 1-216

Martins-Neto R. G. (2003) Systematics of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthopteroidea) from the Santana Formation, Araripe Basin (Lower Cretaceous, northeast Brazil), with a description of new genera and species, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 46 Suppl, 205-228

Gorochov A. V., Jarzembowski E. A., et al (2006) Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England, Cretaceous Research 27, 641-662

Azar D., Nel A. (2008) First Tridactylidae from the Eocene French amber (Insecta: Orthoptera), Alavesia 2, 169-175

Song H. J., Amédégnato C., et al (2015) 300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling, Cladistics

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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