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Pachymeridiidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4779017	https://www.gbif.org/species/4779017
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	196011	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=196011

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Pachymeridiidae

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
-	Clareocercaria	Prokop et al. 2017
-	Acercaria
superorder	Pancondylognatha	Yoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-	Condylognatha	Börner 1904
order	Hemiptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Heteroptera	Latreille 1810
infraorder	Pentatomomorpha	Leston et al. 1954
superfamily	Lygaeoidea	Schilling 1829
family	Pachymeridiidae	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Pachymeridiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pachymeridiidae	family	belongs to Heteroptera	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Pachymeridiidae	family	belongs to Pentatomomorpha	stated with evidence	Whalley, 1985
Pachymeridiidae	family	belongs to Lygaeoidea	stated with evidence	Yao et al., 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adelocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Aphanocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Apsicoria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Beipiaocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Bellicoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cathalus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Corollpachymeridium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Corrivalius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Engerrophorus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Euraspidium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Hypocimex ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Ischnocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Izinabis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Juracipeda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Meropachys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mesomphalocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Neomeridium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Nitoculus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Pachycoridium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pachymeridium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Peregrinpachymeridium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Positocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pronotaphanus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Psychrocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Saldonabis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Sinopachymeridium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Sisyrocoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Stiphroschema ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Takshania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Trachycoris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Viriosinervis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Hypocimicidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Hypocimicidae
Sisyrocoridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Sisyrocoridae
Psychrocoridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Psychrocoridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1856	Pachymerus zucholdi Giebel p. 356
1906	Pachymeridiidae Handlirsch p. 495
1920	Psychrocoridae Handlirsch p. 208
1921	Hypocimicidae Handlirsch p. 209
1921	Sisyrocoridae Handlirsch p. 210
1953	Sisyrocoridae Bode
1985	Pachymeridiidae Whalley
1994	Pachymeridiidae Popov et al. p. 327
2006	Pachymeridiidae Yao et al. p. 754
2018	Pachymeridiidae Szwedo p. 113

References

Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640

Giebel C. G. Die Insecten und Spinnen der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Insekten und Spinnen, Die Fauna der Vorwelt 2, 1-511

Handlirsch A. (1920) Palaeontologie, Handbuch der Entomologie 3, 117-208

Handlirsch A. (1921) Palaeontologie, Handbuch der Entomologie 3, 209-304

Bode A. (1953) Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103, 1-375

Whalley P. E. S. (1985) The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39 3, 107-189

Popov Y. A., Dolling W. R., et al (1994) British Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Heteroptera and Coleorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera), Genus 5 4, 307-347

Yao Y. Z., Cai W. Z., et al (2006) Sinopachymeridium popovi gen. and sp. nov. - a new fossil true bug (Heteroptera: Pachymeridiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China, Annales Zoologici 56, 753-756

Szwedo J. (2018) The unity, diversity and conformity of bugs (Hemiptera) through time, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107, 109-128

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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