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Durnovaria

Description

*Durnovaria is a suggested spelling for the Latin form of the name of the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset, amended from the actually observed Durnonovaria. Upon the assumption that the name was originally Brythonic, it is suggested that the first element in the name, *durno- may mean "fist" like (Welsh dwrn ‘fist, knob’) and the second may be related to Old Irish fáir ~ fóir denoting a confined area or den. A simpler amendment (one letter instead of two) would lead to *Duronovaria, making this place one of up to 18 ancient British names that contain Duro- and mostly occur at river crossings, while -novaria has two possible ancient parallels in Britain associated with river junctions. That analysis would perfectly fit the geographical situation of Dorchester.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4711515https://www.gbif.org/species/4711515
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)196002https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=196002
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Durnovaria
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Phasmatodea : Aerophasmidae : Durnovaria
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
-EukinolabiaTerry and Whiting 2005
orderPhasmatodeaJacobson and Bianchi 1902
superfamilyXiphopterideaSharov 1968
familyAerophasmidaeMartynov 1928
subfamilyChresmodellinae
genusDurnovariaWhalley 1985
Scientific NameDurnovaria Whalley, 1985
Name Published InBulletin Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Geol.) 39 (3)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Durnovariagenusbelongs to Aerophasmidaestated with evidenceWhalley, 1985
Durnovariagenusbelongs to Chresmodellinaestated with evidenceAnsorge, 1996
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance197 - 190 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39(3):107-189
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durnovaria

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Durnovaria parallela
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2197 Ma
Early Jurassic
183 Ma
Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1985Durnovaria Whalley
1996Durnovaria Ansorge p. 33

References

Whalley P. E. S. (1985) The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39 3, 107-189
Ansorge J. (1996) Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland), Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 2, 1-132
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
Bulletin Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Geol.) 39 (3) - 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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