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Parotermes ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4803484	https://www.gbif.org/species/4803484
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	176888	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=176888

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Archotermopsidae : Parotermes

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
family	Archotermopsidae	Engel et al. 2009
genus	Parotermes	Scudder 1883

Scientific Name

Parotermes Scudder, 1883

Name Published In

Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci., (2) 11

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Parotermes	genus	belongs to Termopsinae	stated with evidence	Emerson, 1933
Parotermes	genus	belongs to Hodotermitidae	stated with evidence	Burnham, 1978
Parotermes	genus	belongs to Termopsidae	stated with evidence	Nel and Paicheler, 1993
Parotermes	genus	belongs to Archotermopsidae	stated with evidence	Krishna et al., 2013

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. 1883. The fossil white ants of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:133-145

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Parotermes insignis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1883	Parotermes Scudder
1933	Parotermes Emerson p. 169
1949	Parotermes Snyder p. 362
1978	Parotermes Burnham
1992	Parotermes Carpenter p. 140
1993	Parotermes Nel and Paicheler p. 133
1998	Parotermes Fontes and Vulcano p. 281
2013	Parotermes Krishna et al. p. 263

References

Scudder S. H. The fossil white ants of Colorado, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19, 133-145

Emerson A. E. (1933) A revision of the genera of fossil and recent Termopsinae (Isoptera), University of California Publications in Entomology 6, 165-196

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

Burnham L. (1978) Survey of social insects in the fossil record, Psyche 85, 85-133

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

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

Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci., (2) 11 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

original work (title/other) - 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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