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Palaeodocosia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1614807	https://www.gbif.org/species/1614807
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138567	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138567

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Mycetophilidae : Palaeodocosia

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
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
infraorder	Bibionomorpha
superfamily	Sciaroidea	Billberg 1820
family	Mycetophilidae	Newman 1835
subfamily	Sciophilinae	Winnertz 1863
tribe	Gnoristini
genus	Palaeodocosia	Meunier 1904

Scientific Name

Palaeodocosia Meunier, 1904

Name Published In

Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, 28

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeodocosia	genus	belongs to Mycetophilinae	stated with evidence	Meunier, 1904
Palaeodocosia	genus	belongs to Gnoristini	stated with evidence	Edwards, 1940
Palaeodocosia	genus	belongs to Mycetophilidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Palaeodocosia	genus	belongs to Gnoristini	stated with evidence	Blagoderov, 2000
Palaeodocosia	genus	belongs to Mycetophilidae	stated without evidence	Blagoderov and Martínez-Delclòs, 2001

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. Meunier. 1904. Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 28:12-275

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palaeodocosia alpicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeodocosia brachycamptites ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Palaeodocosia brachypezoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Palaeodocosia cabruae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Palaeodocosia flava species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeodocosia janickii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeodocosia johannseni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Palaeodocosia magadanica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Palaeodocosia rara ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Palaeotrichonta brachycamptites species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomorpha johannseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sciomorpha rara species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Paleosyntemna Carpenter, 1992	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Mycetophilidae : *Paleosyntemna*
Paleosyntemna Meunier, 1922	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Mycetophilidae : *Paleosyntemna*
Heteropygium Dziedzicki	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Mycetophilidae : *Heteropygium*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1904	Palaeodocosia Meunier p. 172
1904	Palaeotrichonta Meunier p. 179
1909	Palaeodocosia Johannsen p. 93
1909	Palaeotrichonta Johannsen p. 93
1922	Sciomorpha Meunier p. 116
1922	Paleosyntemna Meunier p. 119
1940	Palaeodocosia Edwards p. 124
1992	Palaeodocosia Carpenter
2000	Palaeodocosia Blagoderov p. S357
2001	Palaeodocosia Blagoderov and Martínez-Delclòs p. 64

References

Meunier F. (1904) Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique, Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 28, 12-275

Johannsen O. A. (1909) Diptera. Fam. Mycetophilidae, Genera Insectorum 93, 1-141

Meunier F. (1922) Nouvelle contribution à la monographie des "Mycetophilidae" (Ceratoplatinae, Mycetophilinae et Sciophilinae) de l'ambre de la Baltique, Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais et du Centre de la France 1922 4, 114-120

Edwards F. W. (1940) Redefinitions and synonymy of some genera of amber fungus-gnats (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy 9, 120-126

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

Blagoderov V. A. (2000) New fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Asia, Paleontological Journal 34 suppl 3, S355-S359

Blagoderov V. A., Martínez-Delclòs X. (2001) Two new fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, Geobios 34 1, 63-67

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

SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, 28 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Kjaerandsen, Jostein (2008) Svenska svampmyggor. Excelfil 080919 - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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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