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Symphytopterus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4681273	https://www.gbif.org/species/4681273
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	140005	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=140005

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Ephialtitidae : Symphytopterus

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
superfamily	Stephanoidea	Leach 1815
family	Ephialtitidae	Handlirsch 1906
subfamily	Symphytopterinae	Rasnitsyn 1980
genus	Symphytopterus	Rasnitsyn 1975

Scientific Name

Symphytopterus Rasnitsyn, 1975

Name Published In

Trudy paleont. Inst. 147

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Symphytopterus	genus	belongs to Ephialtitidae	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn, 1975
Symphytopterus	genus	belongs to Symphytopterinae	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn, 1980
Symphytopterus	genus	belongs to Ephialtitidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Symphytopterus	genus	belongs to Symphytopterinae	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn et al., 2003

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147:1-134

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anaxyela dubia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sippelipterus liasinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Symphytopterus ater ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus clavicornis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus dubius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus geniculatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus graciler ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus liasinus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Symphytopterus macrophthalmus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus minutus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus nigricornis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus nigridorsatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus nigripes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus obliquus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus oculatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus pallicornis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus pallipes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Symphytopterus robustus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1975	Symphytopterus Rasnitsyn
1980	Symphytopterus Rasnitsyn p. 65
1985	Sippelipterus Zessin pp. 132-133
1992	Symphytopterus Carpenter
2003	Symphytopterus Rasnitsyn et al. p. 336
2014	Symphytopterus Zhang et al. p. 276
2015	Symphytopterus Li et al. p. 2

References

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1975) Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147, 1-134

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1980) Proiskhozhdenie i evolyutsiya pereponchatokrylykh nasekomykh, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 174, 1-190

Zessin W. (1985) Neue oberliassische Apocrita und die Phylogenie der Hymenoptera, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 32 1-3, 129-142

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

Rasnitsyn A. P., Ansorge J., et al (2003) New hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227, 321-342

Zhang Q., Zhang H. C., et al (2014) New Ephialtitidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the Jurassic Daohugou beds of Inner Mongolia, China, Palaeoworld 23, 276-284

Li L. F., Shih C. K., et al (2015) New fossil ephialtitids elucidating the origin and transformation of the propodeal-metasomal articulation in Apocrita (Hymenoptera), BMC Evolutionary Biology 15 45, 1-17

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

Trudy paleont. Inst. 147 - 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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