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Kinetoplastida
Source Data |
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Rank | order (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Kinetoplastida | ||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Extant Size (PBDB) | 2 (50%) | ||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | G. Poinar. 2008. Leptoconops nosopheris sp. n. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and Paleotrypanosoma burmanicus gen. n., sp. n. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), a biting midge - trypanosome vector association from the Early Cretaceous. Mem贸rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 103(5):468-471 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Trypanosomatidae family | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1961 | Kinetoplastida Honigberg |
2008 | Kinetoplastida Poinar |
References
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!