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Mastotermitidae

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Description

Mastotermitidae is a family of termites with one sole living species, Mastotermes darwiniensis which is found only in northern Australia. The remaining genera of this family are only known from the fossil record.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastotermitidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4802811	https://www.gbif.org/species/4802811
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	277575	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=277575

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mastotermitidae

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
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Blattodea	(Latreille 1810)
-	Solumblattodea	Evangelista and Wipfler 2019
superfamily	Blattoidea	Latreille 1810
-	Kittrickea	Wipfler and Evangelista 2019
-	Tutricablattae	Wipfler and Evangelista 2019
-	Isoptera
family	Mastotermitidae	(Desneux 1904)

Scientific Name

Mastotermitidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mastotermitidae	family	belongs to Isoptera	stated with evidence	Emerson, 1965
Mastotermitidae	family	belongs to Isoptera	stated without evidence	Nel et al., 1999
Mastotermitidae	family	belongs to Isoptera	stated with evidence	Wappler, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (4.9%)

First Recorded Appearance

136 - 130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

K. Krishna, D. A. Grimaldi, and V. Krishna, M. S. Engel. 2013. Treatise on the Isoptera of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377:1-2704

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastotermitidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anisotermes ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Blattotermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Garmitermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Idanotermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Khanitermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mastotermes genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	31	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Mastotermites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Miotermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	16.0 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Spargotermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Valditermes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1904	Mastotermitinae Desneux
1917	Pliotermitinae Pongrácz p. 28
1926	Miotermitinae Pongrácz p. 29
1965	Mastotermitidae Emerson p. 15
1992	Mastotermitidae Carpenter p. 139
1993	Mastotermitidae Nel and Paicheler p. 105

Year	Name and Author
1999	Mastotermitidae Nel et al. p. 66
2003	Mastotermitidae Wappler
2007	Mastotermitinae Inward et al.
2009	Mastotermitidae Engel et al.
2013	Mastotermitidae Krishna et al. p. 223

References

Krishna K., Grimaldi D. A., et al (2013) Treatise on the Isoptera of the world, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377, 1-2704

Pongrácz S. (1917) Új harmadidőszaki termeszfaj Radobojról, A Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet évkönyve 25 2, 23-36

Emerson A. E. (1965) A review of the Mastotermitidae (Isoptera), including a new fossil genus from Brazil, American Museum Novitates 2236, 1-46

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

Nel A., Paicheler J. C. (1993) Les Isoptera fossiles. État actuel des connaissances, implications paléoécologiques et paléoclimatologiques (Insecta, Dictyoptera), Cahiers de Paléontologie 1993, 102-179

Nel A., de Plöeg G., et al (1999) Un gisement sparnacien exceptionnel à plantes, arthropodes et vertébrés (Éocène basal, MP7): Le Quesnoy (Oise, France), Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 329 1, 65-72

Wappler T. (2003) Die Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel, Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv, Beiheft 27, 1-234

Inward D., Beccaloni G., et al (2007) Death of an order: a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study confirms that termites are eusocial cockroaches, Biology Letters 3 3, 331-335

Engel M. S., Grimaldi D. A., et al (2009) Termites (Isoptera): their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance, American Museum Novitates 3650, 1-27

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - 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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