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Limnocema ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4790592	https://www.gbif.org/species/4790592
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138256	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138256

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Limoniidae : Limnocema

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	Tipulomorpha
superfamily	Tipuloidea	Latreille 1802
family	Limoniidae	Speiser 1909
genus	Limnocema	Scudder 1894

Scientific Name

Limnocema Scudder, 1894

Name Published In

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 32, no. 143

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Limnocema	genus	belongs to Tipulidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Limnocema	genus	belongs to Limoniidae	stated without evidence	Evenhuis, 1994

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. H. Scudder. 1894. Tertiary Tipulidae, with special reference to those of Florissant, Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 32:163-245

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Limnocema lutescens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Limnocema marcescens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Limnocema mortoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Limnocema sternbergi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Limnocema styx ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Limnocema Scudder p. 201
1992	Limnocema Carpenter
1994	Limnocema Evenhuis

References

Scudder S. H. Tertiary Tipulidae, with special reference to those of Florissant, Colorado, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 32, 163-245

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 32, no. 143 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - 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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