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Taphacris ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4404229	https://www.gbif.org/species/4404229
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	207843	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=207843

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Eumastacidae : Taphacris

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Eumastacidae : Taphacris

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	Caelifera	Ander 1936
infraorder	Acrididea	MacLeay 1821
-	Acridomorpha
superfamily	Eumastacoidea	Burr 1899
family	Eumastacidae
genus	Taphacris	Scudder 1890

Scientific Name

Taphacris Scudder, 1890

Name Published In

Scudder, S.H. 1890. The Tertiary insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Territ.) 13:1-734

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Taphacris	genus	belongs to Eremobiinae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1890
Taphacris	genus	belongs to Eumastacidae	stated with evidence	Lin, 1980
Taphacris	genus	belongs to Eumastacidae	stated without evidence	Eades et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Type Specimen

Taphacris reliquata Scudder, 1890

Designated By

Scudder, S.H. 1890. The Tertiary insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Territ.) 13:226

Type Information Source

Orthoptera Species File

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)

S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Taphacris bittaciformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Taphacris reliquata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Taphacris stenosis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Taphacris tillyardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Taphacris turgis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Tachacris Gu, Yue, Shi, Tian & Ren, 2016	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Eumastacidae : *Tachacris*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1890	Taphacris Scudder p. 226
1909	Eobanksia Cockerell p. 384
1980	Taphacris Lin p. 217
2012	Taphacris Eades et al.

References

Scudder S. H. The Tertiary Insects of North America, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII, 1-734

Cockerell T. D. A. (1909) Descriptions of Tertiary Insects, VI, American Journal of Science, Series 4 27 161, 381-387

Lin Q. B. (1980) Fossil insects from the Mesozoic of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, Division and Correlation of the Mesozoic Volcano-Sedimentary Strata in Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces, 211-234

Eades D. C., Otte D., et al (2012) , Orthoptera Species File Online

Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera), China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing 689 - via Orthoptera Species File

Cockerell. 1926. A fossil orthopterous insect formerly referred to Mecoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington) 28:142 - via Orthoptera Species File

Otte, D. 1994. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] A. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 2:108 - via Orthoptera Species File

Scudder, S.H. 1890. The Tertiary insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Territ.) 13:226 - via Orthoptera Species File

Foss. Ins. N. Amer., 2 - 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

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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