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Xyelotomidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3258862	https://www.gbif.org/species/3258862
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	139522	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=139522

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Xyelotomidae

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
superfamily	Tenthredinoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Xyelotomidae	Rasnitsyn 1968

Scientific Name

Xyelotomidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Xyelotomidae	family	belongs to Symphyta	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Xyelotomidae	family	belongs to Tenthredinoidea	stated with evidence	Nel et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1968. Noviye Mezozoyskiye Pilil'shchiki (Hymenoptera, Symphata) [New Mesozoic Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphata)]. In B. B. Rohdendorf (ed.), Yurskoy Nasekomiye Karatau [Jurassic Insects of Karatau]

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Abrotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Aethotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Dahurotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Davidsmithia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Leridatoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Liaotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Paradoxotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Pseudoxyela ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Pseudoxyelocerus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Synaptotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Undatoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	152 Ma Late Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Xyelocerus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Xyelotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Protenthredinidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Protenthredinidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1968	Xyelotomidae Rasnitsyn p. 224
1982	Protenthredinidae Hong p. 93
1992	Xyelotomidae Carpenter
2004	Xyelotomidae Nel et al. p. 284
2016	Xyelotomidae Gao et al. p. 2

References

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1968) Noviye Mezozoyskiye Pilil'shchiki (Hymenoptera, Symphata) [New Mesozoic Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphata)], Yurskoy Nasekomiye Karatau [Jurassic Insects of Karatau], 190-236

Hong Y. C. (1982) Insecta, Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guyang Coal-Bearing Basin, Neimenggol Autonomous Region, China, 85-100

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

Nel A., Petrulevicius J. F., et al (2004) New Early Jurassic sawflies from Luxembourg: the oldest record of Tenthredinoidea (Hymenoptera: “Symphyta”), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 2, 283-288

Gao T. P., Shih C. K., et al (2016) A new xyelotomid (Hymenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China displaying enigmatic venational asymmetry, BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 155, 1-7

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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

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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