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Procolobostema ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4794037	https://www.gbif.org/species/4794037
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	259888	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=259888

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Scatopsidae : Procolobostema

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
infraorder	Psychodomorpha
superfamily	Scatopsoidea
family	Scatopsidae	Newman 1835
subfamily	Scatopsinae	Newman 1835
tribe	Colobostematini	Amorim 1994
genus	Procolobostema	Cook 1971

Scientific Name

Procolobostema Cook, 1971

Name Published In

Univ. Calif. Publs Ent. 63

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Procolobostema	genus	belongs to Scatopsidae	stated with evidence	Cook, 1971
Procolobostema	genus	belongs to Colobostematini	stated with evidence	Amorim, 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. F. Cook. 1971. Fossil Scatopsidae in Mexican amber (Diptera: Insecta). University of California Publications in Entomology 63:57-61

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Procolobostema hurdi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Procolobostema incisa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procolobostema incisum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Procolobostema obscurum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Procolobostema roseni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1971	Procolobostema Cook p. 60
1998	Procolobostema Amorim p. 10

References

Cook E. F. (1971) Fossil Scatopsidae in Mexican amber (Diptera: Insecta), University of California Publications in Entomology 63, 57-61

Amorim D. S. (1998) Amber fossil Scatopsidae (Diptera: Psychodomorpha). I. Considerations on described taxa, Procolobostema roseni, new species, from Dominican Amber, and the position of Procolobostema in the family, American Museum Novitates 3227, 1-17

CoL2006 - 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

SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Univ. Calif. Publs Ent. 63 - 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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