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Eolepidopterigidae ✝

Description

Eolepidopterigoidea is an extinct superfamily of moths, containing the single family Eolepidopterigidae, although the genus Undopterix is sometimes placed in a separate family Undopterigidae. The type-genus of the family is Eolepidopterix.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4705253https://www.gbif.org/species/4705253
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)227594https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=227594
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Lepidoptera : Eolepidopterigidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-Mecopterida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
orderLepidopteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderEolepidopteriginaRasnitsyn 1983
superfamilyEolepidopterigoideaRasnitsyn 1983
familyEolepidopterigidaeRasnitsyn 1983
Scientific NameEolepidopterigidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Eolepidopterigidaefamilybelongs to Eolepidopteriginastated with evidenceRasnitsyn, 1983
Eolepidopterigidaefamilybelongs to Eolepidopterigoideastated with evidenceSohn et al., 2012
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)31
First Recorded Appearance183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance122 - 112 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1983. Pervaya nakhodka babochki yurskogo vozrasta. Doklady Akademia Nauk SSSR 269:467-471
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolepidopterigidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Aclemus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Akainalepidopteron
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Daiopterix
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2152 Ma
Late Jurassic
152 Ma
Late Jurassic
Dynamilepidopteron
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Eolepidopterix
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1164 Ma
Middle Jurassic
164 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Gracilepterix
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Grammikolepidopteron
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Longcapitalis
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Netoxena
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Palaeolepidopterix
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Petilicorpus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Quadruplecivena
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Seresilepidopteron
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
166 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Undopterix
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2152 Ma
Late Jurassic
122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1983Eolepidopterigidae Rasnitsyn p. 470
1988Undopterigidae Kozlov p. 28
1989Eolepidopterigidae Kozlov p. 34
2012Eolepidopterigidae Sohn et al. p. 14

References

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1983) Pervaya nakhodka babochki yurskogo vozrasta, Doklady Akademia Nauk SSSR 269, 467-471
Kozlov M. V. (1988) Paleontologiya cheshukerylykh i voprosy filogenii otrayada Papilionida, Melovoy Biotsenoticheskiy Krizis i Evolyutsiya Nasekomykh, 16-69
Kozlov M. V. (1989) New Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Lepidoptera (Papilionida), Paleontological Journal 23 4, 34-39
Sohn J. C., Labandeira C., et al (2012) An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world, Zootaxa 3286, 1-132
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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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