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Archaeromma ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1249654	https://www.gbif.org/species/1249654
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	150545	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=150545

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Mymarommatidae : Archaeromma

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
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
infraorder	Proctotrupomorpha
-	Bipetiolarida	Engel 2005
superfamily	Mymarommatoidea	Debauche 1948
family	Mymarommatidae	Debauche 1948
genus	Archaeromma	Yoshimoto 1975

Scientific Name

Archaeromma Yoshimoto, 1975

Name Published In

Can. Ent. 107

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archaeromma	genus	belongs to Mymaridae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Archaeromma	genus	belongs to Mymarommatidae	stated with evidence	Gibson et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

112 - 109 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. M. Yoshimoto. 1975. Cretaceous chalcidoid fossils from Canadian Amber. The Canadian Entomologist 107:499-528

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archaeromma carnifex ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma gibsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma hispanicum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Archaeromma japonicum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma mandibulatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma masneri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma minutissima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeromma minutissimum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma nearctica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeromma nearcticum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archaeromma senonicum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Palaeomymar japonicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1975	Archaeromma Yoshimoto p. 503
1975	Protooctonus Yoshimoto p. 511
1992	Archaeromma Carpenter
1992	Protooctonus Carpenter
2007	Archaeromma Gibson et al. p. 96
2011	Archaeromma Ortega-Blanco et al. p. 514
2015	Archaeromma Engel p. 5

References

Yoshimoto C. M. (1975) Cretaceous chalcidoid fossils from Canadian Amber, The Canadian Entomologist 107, 499-528

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

Gibson G. A. P., Read J., et al (2007) Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16, 51-146

Ortega-Blanco J., Peñalver E., et al (2011) False fairy wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea), Palaeontology 54 3, 511-523

Engel M. S. (2015) A new family of primitive serphitoid wasps in Lebanese amber (Hymenoptera: Serphitoidea), Novitates Paleoentomologicae 13, 1-22

Can. Ent. 107 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

CoL2006/UCD - 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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