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Eotipula ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4790610	https://www.gbif.org/species/4790610
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	137103	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=137103

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Limoniidae : Eotipula

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
subfamily	Eotipulinae	Kalugina 1985
genus	Eotipula	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Eotipula Handlirsch, 1906

Name Published In

Foss. Ins.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eotipula	genus	belongs to Architipulidae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Eotipula	genus	belongs to Architipulidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Eotipula	genus	belongs to Limoniidae	stated without evidence	Evenhuis, 1994
Eotipula	genus	belongs to Eotipulinae	stated with evidence	Zhang, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eotipula coarctata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Eotipula defuncta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Eotipula grangeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Eotipula longa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Eotipula mortua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Eotipula parva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Eotipulina complanata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Eotipulina evidens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Eotipulina eximia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Eotipulina fumosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Eotipulina paula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Eotipulina sharategica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Eotipulina sibirica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Eotipuloptera dignata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Eotipuloptera savtshenkoi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Phryganidium minimum Geinitz, 1883	GBIF	species	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Limoniidae : Eotipula : *Phryganidium minimum*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1883	Phryganidium minimum Geinitz p. 31 figs. Pl 6, fig 4
1906	Eotipula Handlirsch p. 491
1985	Eotipulina Kalugina p. 51
1985	Eotipuloptera Kalugina p. 55
1986	Eotipulina Kalugina p. 116
1992	Eotipula Carpenter
1994	Eotipula Evenhuis
1994	Eotipulina Evenhuis

Year	Name and Author
1994	Eotipuloptera Evenhuis
2006	Eotipula Zhang p. 119
2006	Eotipulina Zhang p. 119
2006	Eotipuloptera Zhang p. 120
2009	Eotipulina Lukashevich p. 144
2009	Eotipuloptera Lukashevich p. 145
2015	Eotipula Oberprieler et al. p. 180

References

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

Geinitz F. E. Die Flötzformationen Mecklenburgs, Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 37, 1-151

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

Kalugina N. S. (1986) Flies. Muscida (=Diptera), in Nasekomye v rannemelovykh ekosistemakh zapadnoy Mongolii, The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition 28, 112-125

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

Zhang J. F. (2006) Jurassic limoniid dipterans from China (Diptera: Limoniidae), Oriental Insects 40, 115-126

Lukashevich E. D. (2009) Limoniidae (Diptera) in the Upper Jurassic of Shar Teg, Mongolia, Zoosymposia 3, 131-154

Oberprieler S. K., Krzemiński W., et al (2015) Systematic palaeontology, in First crane fly from the Upper Jurassic of Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae), Zootaxa 4021, 178-186

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Foss. Ins. - 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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