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Shurabia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4709803	https://www.gbif.org/species/4709803
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	176431	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=176431

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Geinitziidae : Shurabia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Reculida : Geinitziidae : Shurabia

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
order	Reculida
family	Geinitziidae	Handlirsch 1906
genus	Shurabia	Martynov 1937

Scientific Name

Shurabia Martynov, 1937

Name Published In

Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya. Trav Inst Paleontol Acad Sci URSS Moscow (TIPAS URSS Moscow) 7:1-232

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Shurabia	genus	belongs to Geinitziidae	stated with evidence	Martynov, 1937
Shurabia	genus	belongs to Geinitziinae	stated with evidence	Zeuner, 1939
Shurabia	genus	belongs to Geinitziidae	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn, 1982
Shurabia	genus	belongs to Geinitziinae	stated with evidence	Aristov, 2004
Shurabia	genus	belongs to Geinitziidae	stated with evidence	Aristov et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

272 - 269 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Type Specimen

Shurabia ovata Martynov, 1937

Designated By

Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya. Trav Inst Paleontol Acad Sci URSS Moscow (TIPAS URSS Moscow) 7:77

Type Information Source

Grylloblattodea Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. V. Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:1-178

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Minesedes elegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Shurabia aleda ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia angustata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	191 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia annosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Shurabia anomala ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia australis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Shurabia bashkuevi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Shurabia elegans ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia ferganensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia fuyuanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Shurabia grandis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Shurabia hissarica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia inferior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Shurabia kapokkraalensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia kapokraalensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Shurabia lukashevichae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Shurabia magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia minuta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia nanshenghuensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Shurabia ovata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia parvula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	191 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia permiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Shurabia postiretis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	199 Ma Early Jurassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia serrata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Shurabia sogutensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic
Shurabia tanga ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Nivoptera Linnaeus, 1978	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Geinitziidae : *Nivoptera*
Meixiella L.i.Huang & Lin, 1991	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Grylloblattodea : Geinitziidae : *Meixiella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1937	Shurabia Martynov p. 77
1939	Shurabia Zeuner p. 182
1973	Minesedes Fujiyama p. 367
1982	Shurabia Rasnitsyn p. 79
1991	Meixiella Huang et al. p. 649
1997	Shurabia Storozhenko p. 14
1998	Shurabia Storozhenko p. 128

Year	Name and Author
2004	Shurabia Aristov p. 520
2008	Megasepididontus Huang and Nel p. 398
2009	Shurabia Aristov et al. p. 422
2013	Shurabia Aristov p. 758
2015	Shurabia Aristov p. 1318
2018	Shurabia Aristov p. 410

References

Martynov A. V. (1937) Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 1-178

Zeuner F. E. (1939) , Fossil Orthoptera Ensifera, 1-321

Fujiyama I. (1973) Mesozoic insect faunas of east Asia, part I. Introduction and Upper Triassic faunas, Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 16, 331-386

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1982) Triassic and Jurassic Insects of the genus Shurabia (Grylloblattida, Geinitziidae), Paleontological Journal 16 3, 77-86

Huang Z. Q., Li F. Y., et al (1991) Some Early Jurassic insects from Meixi of Yiyang County, Jiangxi, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 30, 647-653

Storozhenko S. Y. (1997) Classification of the Order Grylloblattida (Insecta), with description of new taxa, Far Eastern Entomologist 42, 1-20

Storozhenko S. Y. (1998) , Sistematika, Filogeniya i Evolyutsiya Grilloblattidovykh Nasekomykh (Insecta: Grylloblattida), 1-207

Aristov D. S. (2004) The fauna of grylloblattid insects (Grylloblattida) from the end of the Late Permian to the first half of the Triassic, Paleontological Journal 38, 514-521

Huang D. Y., Nel A. (2008) New "Grylloblattida" related to the genus Prosepididontus Handlirsch, 1920 in the Middle Jurassic of China (Insecta: Geinitziidae), Alcheringa 32, 395-403

Aristov D. S., Wappler T., et al (2009) New and Little-Known Grylloblattids of the Family Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe, Asia, and South Africa, Paleontological Journal 43, 418-424

Aristov D. S. (2013) New grylloblattids (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda region, Paleontological Journal 47, 751-766

Aristov D. S. (2015) New Gryllones (Insecta) from the Permian of Russia, Paleontological Journal 49, 1310-1333

Aristov D. S. (2018) Taxonomic names, in New insects (Insecta: Trichoptera, Reculida, Eoblattida) from the Mesozoic of Asia, Paleontological Journal 52, 405-413

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

Trud. paleont. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 7, 77 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Huang, Z.-q., F.-y. Li & Lin. 1991. Some Early Jurassic insects from Meixi of Yiyang County, Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (APS) 30(5):653 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya. Trav Inst Paleontol Acad Sci URSS Moscow (TIPAS URSS Moscow) 7:77 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Rasnitsyn. 1982. Triassic and Jurassic insects of the genus Shurabia (Grylloblattida, Geinitziidae). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1982(3):78-87 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

Storozhenko. 1998. Sistematika, filogeniya i evolyutsiya grilloblattidovykh (insecta; Grylloblattida) [Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of the grylloblattids (Insecta: Grylloblattida)], Dal' nauka, Vladivostok 128 - via Grylloblattodea Species File

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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