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Fungivorites ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4786977	https://www.gbif.org/species/4786977
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138397	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138397

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Fungivoritidae : Fungivorites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Pleciofungivoridae : Fungivorites

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
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
infraorder	Bibionomorpha
superfamily	Anisopodoidea	Knab 1912
family	Pleciofungivoridae	Rohdendorf 1946
genus	Fungivorites	Rohdendorf 1938

Scientific Name

Fungivorites Rohdendorf, 1938

Name Published In

Trav. Inst. paléontol. Acad. Sci. U. R. S. S., 7 (3)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Fungivorites	genus	belongs to Fungivoritinae	stated with evidence	Rohdendorf, 1946
Fungivorites	genus	belongs to Pleciofungivoridae	stated with evidence	Kovalev, 1987
Fungivorites	genus	belongs to Fungivoritinae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. B. Rohdendorf. 1938. Dvukrylye basekomye Mezozoya Kara-Tau. I. Brachycera i chast' Nematocera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:29-67

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Fungivorites indistinctus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Fungivorites latimedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Fungivorites problematicum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Fungivorites Rohdendorf p. 46
1946	Fungivorites Rohdendorf p. 80
1987	Fungivorites Kovalev
1992	Fungivorites Carpenter

References

Rohdendorf B. B. (1938) Dvukrylye basekomye Mezozoya Kara-Tau. I. Brachycera i chast' Nematocera, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 29-67

Rohdendorf B. B. (1946) Evolyutsiya kryla i filogenez dlinnousykh dvukrylykh Oligoneura (Diptera, Nematocera), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 13, 1-108

Kovalev V. G. (1987) The Mesozoic Mycetophiloid Diptera of the Family Pleciofungivoridae, Paleontological Journal 21 2, 67-79

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Trav. Inst. paléontol. Acad. Sci. U. R. S. S., 7 (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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