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Mesojassoides

Description

Mesojassoides is a genus of extinct leaf hopper from the Late Cretaceous, approximately 70 - 66 million years ago, Fox Hills Formation. The genus contains a single species Mesojassoides gigantea, described from a fore wing found in 1932 by C.H. Dane and W. G. Pierce in Adams County, Colorado. Described by Paul W. Oman in 1937, the genus was named for the similarity in vein structure between the holotype and the modern genus Jassus. The holotype specimen, National Museum of Natural History #75521, is 12 millimetres (0.47 in) long and nearly complete, missing the clavus and a small section of the costal margin. The specimen indicates M. gigantea was similar in size to the largest modern leaf hopper species.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4773463https://www.gbif.org/species/4773463
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)206072https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=206072
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Mesojassoides
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
-ClareocercariaProkop et al. 2017
-Acercaria
superorderPancondylognathaYoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-CondylognathaBörner 1904
orderHemipteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderAuchenorrhyncha
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyMembracoideaRafinesque 1815
familyCicadellidaeLatreille 1825
subfamilyBathysmatophorinaeAnufriev 1978
tribeBathysmatophoriniAnufriev 1978
genusMesojassoidesOman 1937
Scientific NameMesojassoides Oman, 1937
Name Published InJ. Paleont., 11
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Mesojassoidesgenusbelongs to Cicadellidaestated with evidenceOman, 1937
Mesojassoidesgenusbelongs to Bathysmatophorinistated with evidenceSzwedo, 2005
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)P. W. Oman. 1937. Fossil Hemiptera from the Fox Hills Sandstone (Cretaceous) of Colorado. Journal of Paleontology 11:38
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesojassoides

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Mesojassoides gigantea
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
170.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1937Mesojassoides Oman p. 38
1956Mesojassoides Evans p. 213
1992Mesojassoides Hamilton p. 429
2005Mesojassoides Szwedo p. 272
2018Mesojassoides Chen et al. p. 252

References

Oman P. W. (1937) Fossil Hemiptera from the Fox Hills Sandstone (Cretaceous) of Colorado, Journal of Paleontology 11, 38
Evans J. W. (1956) Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Hemiptera (Insecta), Australian Journal of Zoology 4, 165-258
Hamilton K. G. A. (1992) Lower Cretaceous Homoptera from the Koonwarra Fossil Bed in Australia, with a New Superfamily and Synopsis of Mesozoic Homoptera, Annals of the Entomological Society of America 85 4, 423-430
Szwedo J. (2005) Jantarivacanthus kotejai gen. et sp. n. from Eocene Baltic amber, with notes on the Bathysmatophorini and related taxa (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadellidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74, 251-276
Chen J., Wang B., et al (2018) A representative of the modern leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), Cretaceous Research 95, 252-259
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
J. Paleont., 11 - 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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