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Ampliceps ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4747295	https://www.gbif.org/species/4747295
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	214298	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=214298

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Nemonychidae : Ampliceps

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
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
-	Phytophaga
superfamily	Curculionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Nemonychidae	Bedel 1882
subfamily	Eobelinae
tribe	Karataucarini	Legalov 2009
genus	Ampliceps	Arnoldi

Scientific Name

Ampliceps Arnoldi

Name Published In

in Arnol'di, Zherikhin, Nikritin & Ponomarenko, Trudy paleont. Inst. 16[b]

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ampliceps	genus	belongs to Oxycorynoidini	stated with evidence	Arnoldi, 1977
Ampliceps	genus	belongs to Oxycorynoidinae	stated with evidence	Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999
Ampliceps	genus	belongs to Oxycorynoidini	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2009
Ampliceps	genus	belongs to Karataucarini	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. V. Arnoldi. 1977. Rhynchopora, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:142-176

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ampliceps dentitibia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ampliceps dubius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ampliceps furcitibia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ampliceps tenuirostris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ampliceps zimmermanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1977	Scelocamptus Arnoldi p. 164
1977	Ampliceps Arnoldi p. 166
1999	Ampliceps Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 39
1999	Scelocamptus Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 39
2009	Medmetrioxenoides Gratshev and Legalov p. 414
2009	Ampliceps Legalov p. 203
2009	Scelocamptus Legalov p. 204
2009	Gratshevicar Legalov p. 288
2009	Karataucar Legalov p. 288

Year	Name and Author
2010	Ampliceps Legalov p. 76
2010	Scelocamptus Legalov p. 78
2010	Gratshevicar Legalov p. 79
2010	Karataucar Legalov p. 79
2010	Medmetrioxenoides Legalov p. 80
2012	Ampliceps Legalov p. 687
2014	Ampliceps Gratshev and Legalov p. 879
2015	Ampliceps Legalov p. 1448

References

Arnoldi L. V. (1977) Rhynchopora, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161, 142-176

Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Lyal C. H. C. (1999) , A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae), 1-316

Gratshev V. G., Legalov A. A. (2009) New taxa of the family Nemonychidae (Coleoptera) from Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, Euroasian Entomological Journal 8, 411-416

Legalov A. A. (2009) Annotated checklist of fossil and recent species of the family Nemonychidae (Coleoptera) from the world fauna, Amurian Zoological Journal 1, 200-213

Legalov A. A. (2009) Contribution to the knowledge of the Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera), Amurian Zoological Journal 1, 283-295

Legalov A. A. (2010) Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10, 71-101

Legalov A. A. (2012) Fossil history of Mesozoic weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), Insect Science 19, 683-698 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2012.01508.x

Gratshev V. G., Legalov A. A. (2014) The Mesozoic stage of evolution of the family Nemonychidae (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea), Paleontological Journal 48, 851-944

Legalov A. A. (2015) Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea), Paleontological Journal 49, 1442-1513

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - 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 (authority adjusted) - 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 Arnol'di, Zherikhin, Nikritin & Ponomarenko, Trudy paleont. Inst. 16[b] - 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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