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Disphaerocephalus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3234984	https://www.gbif.org/species/3234984
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	213537	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=213537

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Enicocephalidae : Disphaerocephalus

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
-	Clareocercaria	Prokop et al. 2017
-	Acercaria
superorder	Pancondylognatha	Yoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-	Condylognatha	Börner 1904
order	Hemiptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Heteroptera	Latreille 1810
-	Enicocephalomorpha
family	Enicocephalidae	Stal 1860
subfamily	Disphaerocephalinae	Štys 1969
genus	Disphaerocephalus	Cockerell 1917

Scientific Name

Disphaerocephalus Cockerell, 1917

Name Published In

Amer. J. Sci., (4) 44

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Disphaerocephalus	genus	belongs to Enicocephalidae	stated with evidence	Cockerell, 1917
Disphaerocephalus	genus	belongs to Disphaerocephalinae	stated with evidence	Štys, 1969

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T. D. A. Cockerell. 1917. Arthropods in Burmese amber. American Journal of Science, Series 4 44(263):360-368

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Disphaerocephalus constrictus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Disphaerocephalus macropterus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Disphaerocephalus swinhoei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Enicocephalus swinhoei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1917	Disphaerocephalus Cockerell p. 361
1969	Disphaerocephalus Štys p. 356

References

Cockerell T. D. A. (1917) Arthropods in Burmese amber, American Journal of Science, Series 4 44 263, 360-368

Štys P. (1969) Revision of fossil and pseudofossil Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 66, 352-365

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: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

SN2000/Slater, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Amer. J. Sci., (4) 44 - 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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