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Scytohymenidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4770200	https://www.gbif.org/species/4770200
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	197488	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=197488

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Megasecoptera : Scytohymenidae

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
superorder	Palaeodictyopterida
order	Megasecoptera	Brongniart 1885
family	Scytohymenidae	Martynov 1937

Scientific Name

Scytohymenidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scytohymenidae	family	belongs to Protohymenoptera	stated with evidence	Martynov, 1937
Scytohymenidae	family	belongs to Megasecoptera	stated with evidence	Carpenter, 1992

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. V. Martynov. 1937. Permian fossil insects from Kargala and their relationships. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:1-92

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Karoohymen ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Oceanoptera ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Scytohymen ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tshekardohymen ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1937	Scytohymenidae Martynov p. 58
1992	Scytohymenidae Carpenter p. 51
2009	Scytohymenidae Shcherbakov p. 10
2018	Scytohymenidae Pecharová and Prokop p. 126

References

Martynov A. V. (1937) Permian fossil insects from Kargala and their relationships, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 1-92

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

Shcherbakov D. E. (2009) Taxonomic names, in Permian insects from the Russky Island, South Primorye, Russian Entomological Journal 18 1, 7-16

Pecharová M., Prokop J. (2018) The morphology of mouthparts, wings and genitalia of Paleozoic insect families Protohymenidae and Scytohymenidae reveals new details and supposed function, Arthropod Structure & Development 47, 117-129

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