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Tapopterum ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4683078	https://www.gbif.org/species/4683078
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	195605	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=195605

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Liomopteridae : Tapopterum

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Reculida : Liomopteridae : Tapopterum

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
order	Reculida
family	Liomopteridae	Sellards 1909
genus	Tapopterum	Carpenter 1950

Scientific Name

Tapopterum Carpenter, 1950

Name Published In

Carpenter. 1950. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 10. The order Protorthoptera: The family Liomopteridae and its relatives. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci.) 78:187-219

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tapopterum	genus	belongs to Liomopteridae	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1950

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

299 - 296 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Type Specimen

Tapopterum celsum Carpenter, 1950

Designated By

Type Information Source

Grylloblattodea Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1950. The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 10. The order Protorthoptera: the family Liomopteridae and its relatives. Proceedings of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 78(4):185-219

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tapopterum celsum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Tapopterum extendum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Tapopterum impurum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tapopterum longum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Tapopterum oborianum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Tapopterum populus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Tapopterum subtile ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1950	Tapopterum Carpenter p. 195
1992	Tapopterum Carpenter p. 111
1997	Tapopterum Storozhenko p. 15
1998	Tapopterum Storozhenko p. 143
2004	Tapopterum Aristov p. 239

References

Carpenter F. M. (1950) The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 10. The order Protorthoptera: the family Liomopteridae and its relatives, Proceedings of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 78 4, 185-219

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

Storozhenko S. Y. (1997) Classification of the Order Grylloblattida (Insecta), with description of new taxa, Far Eastern Entomologist 42, 1-20

Storozhenko S. Y. (1998) , Sistematika, Filogeniya i Evolyutsiya Grilloblattidovykh Nasekomykh (Insecta: Grylloblattida), 1-207

Aristov D. S. (2004) Important new insect fossils from Carrizo Arroyo and the Permo-Carboniferous faunal boundary, Carboniferous-Permian transition, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 25, 214-246

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

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., 78 - 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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