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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4669449	https://www.gbif.org/species/4669449
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	152038	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=152038

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Sphecidae : Archisphex

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Angarosphecidae : Archisphex

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
-	Aculeata
superfamily	Apoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Angarosphecidae	Rasnitsyn 1975
genus	Archisphex	Evans 1969

Scientific Name

Archisphex Evans, 1969

Name Published In

Psyche, Camb. 76

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archisphex	genus	belongs to Baissodidae	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn, 1975
Archisphex	genus	belongs to Baissodidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Archisphex	genus	belongs to Sphecidae	stated without evidence	Ross and Cook, 1995

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

140 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. E. Evans. 1969. Three new Cretaceous aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera). Psyche 76:251-261

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archisphex boothi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archisphex catalunicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archisphex crowsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archisphex curvus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archisphex incertus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archisphex proximus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cretosphex catalunicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cretosphex incertus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mataeosphex venulosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeapis beiboziensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Mataeosphex Zhang, 1985	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Sphecidae : *Mataeosphex*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1969	Archisphex Evans p. 252
1975	Archisphex Rasnitsyn
1975	Cretosphex Rasnitsyn
1992	Archisphex Carpenter
1992	Cretosphex Carpenter
1995	Archisphex Ross and Cook p. 712

References

Evans H. E. (1969) Three new Cretaceous aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera), Psyche 76, 251-261

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1975) Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147, 1-134

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

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

Psyche, Camb. 76 - 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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