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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4797923	https://www.gbif.org/species/4797923
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	195810	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=195810

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Cnemidolestodea : Gerapompidae : Gerapompus

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
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Archaeorthoptera	Béthoux and Nel 2002
order	Cnemidolestodea	Handlirsch 1937
suborder	Cnemidolestina	Handlirsch 1937
family	Gerapompidae	Handlirsch 1906
genus	Gerapompus	Scudder 1885

Scientific Name

Gerapompus Scudder, 1885

Name Published In

Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gerapompus	genus	belongs to Palaeodictyoptera	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1885
Gerapompus	genus	belongs to Gerapompidae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Gerapompus	genus	belongs to Protorthoptera	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Gerapompus	genus	belongs to Gerapompidae	stated with evidence	Aristov, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

311 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

311 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. H. Scudder. 1885. Palaeodictyoptera; or the affinities and classification of Paleozoic Hexapoda. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3(11):319-351

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gerapompus blattinoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Gerapompus extensus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Gerapompus schucherti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Gerapompus Scudder p. 325
1906	Gerapompus Handlirsch p. 166
1919	Gerapompus Handlirsch p. 563
1922	Gerapompus Handlirsch p. 106
1992	Gerapompus Carpenter p. 132
2014	Gerapompus Aristov p. 16

References

Scudder S. H. Palaeodictyoptera; or the affinities and classification of Paleozoic Hexapoda, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3 11, 319-351

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

Handlirsch A. (1919) Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten, Denkschriften der Akademie Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 96, 511-592

Handlirsch A. (1922) Insecta Palaeozoica, Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia 16, 1-230

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

Aristov D. S. (2014) Classification of the order Cnemidolestida (Insecta: Perlidea) with descriptions of new taxa, Far Eastern Entomologist 277, 1-46

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 3 - 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

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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