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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4682592	https://www.gbif.org/species/4682592
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	176987	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=176987

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Meganisoptera : Meganeuridae : Arctotypus

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
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
-	Euhydropalaeoptera	Sroka et al. 2014
-	Odonatoptera	Martynov 1932
-	Palaeodonatoptera	Petrulevicius and Gutiérrez 2016
-	Plesiodonatoptera	Petrulevicius and Gutiérrez 2016
-	Apodonatoptera	Petrulevicius and Gutiérrez 2016
-	Paneodonatoptera	Nel et al. 2019
-	Neodonatoptera	Bechly 1996
order	Meganisoptera	Martynov 1932
family	Meganeuridae	Handlirsch 1906
subfamily	Tupinae	Handlirsch 1919
genus	Arctotypus	Martynov 1932

Scientific Name

Arctotypus Martynov, 1932

Name Published In

Trav. Inst. paléozool. Acad. Sci. U. R. S. S., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Arctotypus	genus	belongs to Typinae	stated with evidence	Martynov, 1932
Arctotypus	genus	belongs to Typinae	stated without evidence	Martynov, 1940
Arctotypus	genus	belongs to Typinae	stated with evidence	Zalessky, 1950
Arctotypus	genus	subjective synonym of Tupus	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Arctotypus	genus	belongs to Meganeuridae	stated with evidence	Novokshonov, 1998
Arctotypus	genus	belongs to Tupinae	stated with evidence	Nel et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

318 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

272 - 269 Ma
Permian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. V. Martynov. 1932. New Permian Palaeoptera with the discussion of some problems of their evolution. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 1:1-44

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arctotypus carbonicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Arctotypus diluculum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Arctotypus fortis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Arctotypus gallicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Arctotypus giganteus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Arctotypus intermedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Arctotypus merifonsensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Arctotypus sinuatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Arctotypus sylvaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1932	Arctotypus Martynov
1940	Arctotypus Martynov p. 12
1950	Arctotypus Zalessky
1983	Arctotypus Zessin
1989	Arctotypus Brauckmann and Zessin p. 182
1998	Arctotypus Novokshonov p. 26
2009	Arctotypus Nel et al. p. 98

References

Martynov A. V. (1932) New Permian Palaeoptera with the discussion of some problems of their evolution, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 1, 1-44

Martynov A. V. (1940) Permian fossil insects from Chekarda, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 11, 1-63

Zalessky G. (1950) New representatives of fossil insects of order Protodonata, Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Geologicheskiy 25, 98-108

Zessin W. (1983) Zur Taxonomie der jungpaläozoischen Familie Meganeuridae (Odonata) unter Einbeziehung eines Neufundes aus dem Stefan C der Halleschen Mulde (DDR), Freiberger Forschungshefte C 384, 58-76

Brauckmann C., Zessin W. (1989) Neue Meganeuridae aus dem Namurium von Hagen-Vorhalle (BRD) und die Phylogenie der Meganisoptera, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 36 1-3, 177-215

Novokshonov V. G. (1998) Iskopaemye nasekomye Chekardy, Chekarda - Mestonakhozhdenie Permskikh Iskopaemykh Rasteniy i Nasekomykh, 25-54

Nel A., Fleck G., et al (2009) Revision of Permo-Carboniferous griffenflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera) based upon new species and redescription of selected poorly known taxa from Eurasia, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 289 4-6, 89-121

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

Trav. Inst. paléozool. Acad. Sci. U. R. S. S., 1 - 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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