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Mesocephus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4674111	https://www.gbif.org/species/4674111
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	139656	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=139656

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Cephidae : Mesocephus

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
superfamily	Cephoidea	Newman 1835
family	Cephidae	Newman 1835
genus	Mesocephus	Rasnitsyn 1968

Scientific Name

Mesocephus Rasnitsyn, 1968

Name Published In

In Rohdendorf [Ed.] [Jurassic insects of the Karatau.] Nauka, Moscow

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mesocephus	genus	belongs to Cephidae	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn, 1968
Mesocephus	genus	belongs to Cephidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Mesocephus	genus	belongs to Cephidae	stated with evidence	Archibald and Rasnitsyn, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1968. Noviye Mezozoyskiye Pilil'shchiki (Hymenoptera, Symphata) [New Mesozoic Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphata)]. In B. B. Rohdendorf (ed.), Yurskoy Nasekomiye Karatau [Jurassic Insects of Karatau]

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mesocephus brachycerus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mesocephus leleji ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mesocephus sibiricus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1968	Mesocephus Rasnitsyn p. 196
1992	Mesocephus Carpenter
2015	Mesocephus Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 210
2016	Mesocephus Kopylov and Rasnitsyn p. 79

References

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1968) Noviye Mezozoyskiye Pilil'shchiki (Hymenoptera, Symphata) [New Mesozoic Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphata)], Yurskoy Nasekomiye Karatau [Jurassic Insects of Karatau], 190-236

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

Archibald S. B., Rasnitsyn A. P. (2015) Taxonomic names, in New early Eocene Siricomorpha (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Pamphiliidae, Siricidae, Cephidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America, The Canadian Entomologist 148, 209-228

Kopylov D. S., Rasnitsyn A. P. (2016) Cephidae (Hymenoptera) of the Mesozoic, Euroasian Entomological Journal 15 S1, 78-83

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

In Rohdendorf [Ed.] [Jurassic insects of the Karatau.] Nauka, Moscow - 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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