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Paraxymyiidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3264882	https://www.gbif.org/species/3264882
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138423	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138423

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Paraxymyiidae

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
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
infraorder	Bibionomorpha
superfamily	Sciaroidea	Billberg 1820
family	Paraxymyiidae	Rohdendorf 1946

Scientific Name

Paraxymyiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paraxymyiidae	family	belongs to Nematocera	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Paraxymyiidae	family	belongs to Sciaroidea	stated with evidence	Blagoderov and Grimaldi, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

152 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. B. Rohdendorf. 1946. Evolyutsiya kryla i filogenez dlinnousykh dvukrylykh Oligoneura (Diptera, Nematocera). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 13:1-108

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eomycetophilinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	2	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Paraxymyiinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Arcus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Complecia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Paraplecia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Paraxymyia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	191 Ma Early Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Veriplecia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Virginiptera ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Parapleciidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Parapleciidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1946	Paraxymyiidae Rohdendorf p. 44
1983	Parapleciidae Hong p. 122
1992	Paraxymyiidae Carpenter
2007	Paraxymyiidae Blagoderov and Grimaldi p. 14

References

Rohdendorf B. B. (1946) Evolyutsiya kryla i filogenez dlinnousykh dvukrylykh Oligoneura (Diptera, Nematocera), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 13, 1-108

Hong Y. C. (1983) , Middle Jurassic Fossil Insects in North China, 1-223

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

Blagoderov V., Grimaldi D. A. (2007) Taxonomic names, in How time flies for flies: diverse Diptera from the Triassic of Virginia and early radiation of the order, American Museum Novitates 3572, 1-39

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006/BDWD - 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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