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Crenoptychoptera ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4790423	https://www.gbif.org/species/4790423
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	141059	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=141059

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Ptychopteridae : Crenoptychoptera

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
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Nematocera	Latreille 1825
infraorder	Ptychopteromorpha
family	Ptychopteridae	Osten-Sacken 1862
genus	Crenoptychoptera	Kalugina 1985

Scientific Name

Crenoptychoptera Kalugina, 1985

Name Published In

in Kalugina & Kovalev, [Diptera (Insecta) of the Jurassic of Siberia.] Nauka, Moscow

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Crenoptychoptera	genus	belongs to Eoptychopteridae	stated with evidence	Kalugina, 1985
Crenoptychoptera	genus	belongs to Eoptychopteridae	stated without evidence	Evenhuis, 1994
Crenoptychoptera	genus	belongs to Eoptychopterinae	stated with evidence	Lukashevich et al., 1998
Crenoptychoptera	genus	belongs to Ptychopteridae	stated with evidence	Lukashevich, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

N. S. Kalugina. 1985. Infraorders Psychodomorpha, Tipulomorpha and Culicomorpha. In N. S. Kalugina, V. G. Kovalev (eds.), Dvukrylye nasekomye Yury Sibiri

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Crenoptychoptera antica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera bavarica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera conspecta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera decorosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera defossa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera dobbertinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera gronskayae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	152 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Crenoptychoptera liturata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1985	Crenoptychoptera Kalugina p. 41
1994	Crenoptychoptera Evenhuis
1998	Crenoptychoptera Lukashevich et al. p. 331
2011	Crenoptychoptera Lukashevich p. 623

References

Kalugina N. S. (1985) Infraorders Psychodomorpha, Tipulomorpha and Culicomorpha, Dvukrylye nasekomye Yury Sibiri, 33-113

Evenhuis N. L. (1994) , Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera), 1-600

Lukashevich E., Ansorge J., et al (1998) Revision of Eoptychopterinae (Diptera: Eoptychopteridae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 67, 311-343

Lukashevich E. D. (2011) New nematocerans (Insecta: Diptera) from the Late Jurassic of Mongolia, Paleontological Journal 45 6, 620-628

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006/BDWD - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Evenhuis, N. L. (2014). Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera), Version 2.0. Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/. - 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 Kalugina & Kovalev, [Diptera (Insecta) of the Jurassic of Siberia.] Nauka, Moscow - 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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