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Parastylotermes ✝

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Description

Parastylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the Isoptera family Stylotermitidae known from North America, Europe, and India. The genus contains five described species, Parastylotermes calico, Parastylotermes frazieri, Parastylotermes krishnai, Parastylotermes robustus, and Parastylotermes washingtonensis.

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4803475	https://www.gbif.org/species/4803475
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	179825	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179825

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Stylotermitidae : Parastylotermes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Stylotermitidae : Parastylotermes

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	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Blattodea	(Latreille 1810)
-	Solumblattodea	Evangelista and Wipfler 2019
superfamily	Blattoidea	Latreille 1810
-	Kittrickea	Wipfler and Evangelista 2019
-	Tutricablattae	Wipfler and Evangelista 2019
-	Isoptera
-	Euisoptera	Engel et al. 2009
-	Icoisoptera	Engel et al. 2013
-	Neoisoptera	Engel et al. 2009
family	Stylotermitidae
genus	Parastylotermes	Snyder & Emerson 1949

Scientific Name

Parastylotermes Snyder & Emerson, 1949

Name Published In

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 112

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Parastylotermes	genus	belongs to Stylotermitinae	stated with evidence	Snyder, 1949
Parastylotermes	genus	belongs to Rhinotermitidae	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Parastylotermes	genus	belongs to Stylotermitinae	stated with evidence	Nel and Paicheler, 1993
Parastylotermes	genus	belongs to Rhinotermitidae	stated without evidence	Park and Downing, 2001
Parastylotermes	genus	belongs to Stylotermitidae	stated with evidence	Engel and Grimaldi, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T. E. Snyder and A. E. Emerson. 1949. Taxonomic names, in Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112(3953):1-490

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parastylotermes

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Parastylotermes calico ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Parastylotermes frazieri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Parastylotermes krishnai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Parastylotermes robustus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Parastylotermes washingtonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1949	Parastylotermes Snyder p. 366
1949	Parastylotermes Snyder and Emerson p. 366
1958	Parastylotermes Pierce p. 19
1992	Parastylotermes Carpenter p. 142
1993	Parastylotermes Nel and Paicheler p. 161
1998	Parastylotermes Fontes and Vulcano p. 283
2001	Parastylotermes Park and Downing p. 179
2011	Parastylotermes Engel and Grimaldi
2013	Parastylotermes Krishna et al. p. 629

References

Snyder T. E., Emerson A. E. (1949) Taxonomic names, in Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112 3953, 1-490

Snyder T. E. (1949) Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112 3953, 1-490

Pierce W. D. (1958) Fossil Arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules, Bulletin of The Southern California Academy of Sciences 57 1, 13-24

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

Nel A., Paicheler J. C. (1993) Les Isoptera fossiles. État actuel des connaissances, implications paléoécologiques et paléoclimatologiques (Insecta, Dictyoptera), Cahiers de Paléontologie 1993, 102-179

Fontes L. R., Vulcano M. A. (1998) Cupins fósseis do Novo Mundo, Cupins: O Desafio do Conhecimento, 243-295

Park L. E., Downing K. F. (2001) Paleoecology of an exceptionally preserved arthropod fauna from lake deposits of the Miocene Barstow Formation, Southern California, U.S.A., Palaios 16 2, 175-184

Engel M. S., Grimaldi D. A. (2011) Taxonomic names, in The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest record of the Termitidae (Isoptera), ZooKeys 148, 105-123

Krishna K., Grimaldi D. A., et al (2013) Treatise on the Isoptera of the world, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377, 1-2704

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

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 112 - 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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