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Proanaxipha ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4401949	https://www.gbif.org/species/4401949
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	218564	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=218564

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Gryllidae : Proanaxipha

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
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Orthopterida	Boudreaux 1979
order	Orthoptera	Olivier 1789
suborder	Ensifera	Chopard 1920
infraorder	Gryllidea	Laicharting 1781
superfamily	Grylloidea	Laicharting 1781
family	Gryllidae	Laicharting 1781
subfamily	Pentacentrinae	Saussure 1878
genus	Proanaxipha	Vickery & Poinar 1994

Scientific Name

Proanaxipha Vickery & Poinar, 1994

Name Published In

Vickery & Poinar Jr. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. Canadian Entomologist (Canadian Ent.) 126(1):13-22

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Proanaxipha	genus	belongs to Trigonidiinae	stated with evidence	Gorochov, 1995
Proanaxipha	genus	belongs to Pentacentrinae	stated with evidence	Gorochov, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Type Specimen

Proanaxipha latoca Vickery & Poinar, 1994

Designated By

Vickery & Poinar Jr. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. Canadian Entomologist (Canadian Ent.) 126(1):15

Type Information Source

Orthoptera Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ensifera)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ensifera)

Vision

well-developed (based on Ensifera)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ensifera)

Reproduction

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

Ontogeny

molting (based on Ensifera)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Ensifera)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

V. R. Vickery and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. The Canadian Entomologist 126:13-22

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Proanaxipha bicolorata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Proanaxipha latoca ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Proanaxipha madgesuttonae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1994	Proanaxipha Vickery and Poinar p. 15
1995	Proanaxipha Gorochov p. 191
2010	Proanaxipha Gorochov p. 442

References

Vickery V. R., Poinar G. O. (1994) Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber, The Canadian Entomologist 126, 13-22

Gorochov A. V. (1995) Sistema i evolyutsiya pryamokrylykh podotryada Ensifera (Orthoptera), chast II, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 260 2, 1-212

Gorochov A. V. (2010) New and little known orthopteroid insects (Polyneoptera) from fossil resins: communication 3, Paleontological Journal 44, 434-450

Vickery & Poinar Jr. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. Canadian Entomologist (Canadian Ent.) 126(1):15 - via Orthoptera Species File

Gorochov. 2010. New and little known orthopteroid insects (Polyneoptera) from fossil resins: Communication 3. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (Paleont. Zh.) 4:78 - via Orthoptera Species File

Heads, Penney & D.I. Green. 2012. A new fossil cricket of the genus Proanaxipha in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Pentacentrinae). ZooKeys 229:112 - via Orthoptera Species File

Otte, D. & Perez-Gelabert. 2009. Caribbean Crickets, Orthopterist's Society 142 - via Orthoptera Species File

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

Canadian Entomologist 126 (1), January-February - 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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