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Pseudosinella

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	261549	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=261549

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Collembola : Entomobryomorpha : Entomobryidae : Pseudosinella

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
-	Ellipura	Börner 1910
class	Collembola
order	Entomobryomorpha	Börner 1913
superfamily	Entomobryoidea	Schaffer 1896
family	Entomobryidae	Schaffer 1896
subfamily	Lepidocyrtinae	Wahlgren 1906
genus	Pseudosinella	Schaeffer 1897

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudosinella	genus	belongs to Entomobryidae	stated with evidence	Mari Mutt, 1983
Pseudosinella	genus	belongs to Lepidocyrtinae	stated with evidence	Sánchez-García and Engel, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Collembola)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Collembola)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Mari Mutt. 1983. Collembola in amber from the Dominican Republic. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85:575-587

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1897	Pseudosinella Schaeffer
1983	Pseudosinella Mari Mutt p. 581
2016	Pseudosinella Sánchez-García and Engel p. 37

References

Mari Mutt J. A. (1983) Collembola in amber from the Dominican Republic, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85, 575-587

Sánchez-García A., Engel M. S. (2016) Springtails from the Early Cretaceous amber of Spain (Collembola: Entomobryomorpha), with an annotated checklist of fossil Collembola, American Museum Novitates 3862, 1-47

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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