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Palaeotorymus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1372428	https://www.gbif.org/species/1372428
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	150520	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=150520

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Torymidae : Palaeotorymus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Holometabola
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
infraorder	Proctotrupomorpha
superfamily	Chalcidoidea
family	Torymidae	Walker 1833
genus	Palaeotorymus	Brues 1910

Scientific Name

Palaeotorymus Brues, 1910

Name Published In

Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard, 54, no. 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeotorymus	genus	belongs to Torymidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

20.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. T. Brues. 1910. The parasitic Hymenoptera of the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 44(1):3-125

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palaeotorymus aciculatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Palaeotorymus laevis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Palaeotorymus renzii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	20.0 Ma Miocene	20.0 Ma Miocene
Palaeotorymus striatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Palaeotorymus typicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Perilampus renzii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1910	Palaeotorymus Brues p. 18
1992	Palaeotorymus Carpenter

References

Brues C. T. (1910) The parasitic Hymenoptera of the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 44 1, 3-125

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

GBIF/Catalogue of Life 2009 Higher Classification - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard, 54, no. 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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