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Samaroblattula ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6929287	https://www.gbif.org/species/6929287
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	213698	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=213698

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattodea : Mesoblattinidae : Samaroblattula

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Blattaria : Caloblattinidae : Samaroblattula

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
order	Blattaria
superfamily	Caloblattinoidea	Vrsansky and Ansorge 2000
family	Caloblattinidae	Vršanský and Ansorge 2000
genus	Samaroblattula	Martynov 1937

Scientific Name

Samaroblattula Martynov, 1937

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Samaroblattula	genus	belongs to Mesoblattinidae	stated with evidence	Martynov, 1937
Samaroblattula	genus	belongs to Argentinoblattidae	stated with evidence	Martins-Neto et al., 2005
Samaroblattula	genus	belongs to Caloblattinidae	stated with evidence	Vršanský and Ansorge, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

199 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

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 II, Blattodea. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:182-231

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Samaroblattula furcatella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Samaroblattula houchengensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Samaroblattula lata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Samaroblattula lineata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Samaroblattula lingulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Samaroblattula oshinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Samaroblattula reticulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Samaroblattula scabra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	199 Ma Early Jurassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic
Samaroblattula subacuta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	199 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1937	Samaroblattula Martynov p. 199
1982	Samaroblattula Hong p. 66
1986	Samaroblattula Lin p. 45
2005	Samaroblattula Martins-Neto et al. p. 6
2007	Samaroblattula Vršanský and Ansorge

References

Martynov A. V. (1937) Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part II, Blattodea, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 182-231

Hong Y. C. (1982) , Mesozoic Fossil Insects of Jiuquan Basin in Gansu Province, 1-187

Lin Q. B. (1986) Early Mesozoic fossil insects from South China, Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 170, 1-112

Martins-Neto R. G., Mancuso A., et al (2005) The Triassic Insect Fauna from Argentina. Blattoptera from the Los Rastros Formation (Bermejo Basin), La Rioja Province, Ameghiniana 42 4, 1-21

Vršanský P., Ansorge J. (2007) Lower Jurassic cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria ) from Germany and England, African Invertebrates 48 1, 103-126

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - 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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