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Baissidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9606261	https://www.gbif.org/species/9606261
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	195391	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=195391

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Baissidae

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
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
superfamily	Evanioidea	Latreille 1802
family	Baissidae	Rasnitsyn 1975

Scientific Name

Baissidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Baissidae	family	belongs to Evanioidea	stated with evidence	Rasnitsyn, 1975
Baissidae	family	belongs to Aulaciformes	stated with evidence	Engel, 2017
Baissidae	family	belongs to Evanioidea	stated with evidence	Li et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

93.9 - 89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147:1-134

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Baissa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Electrobaissa ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Heterobaissa ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Humiryssus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	145 Ma Late Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Manlaya ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	20	145 Ma Late Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mesepipolaea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Tillywhimia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Manlayidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Manlayidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1975	Baissidae Rasnitsyn
1986	Manlayinae Rasnitsyn p. 156
1994	Manlayidae Kovalev p. 117
1995	Manlayinae Ren p. 114
2017	Baissidae Engel p. 5
2018	Baissidae Li et al.

References

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1975) Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147, 1-134

Rasnitsyn A. P. (1986) Wasps. Vespida (=Hymenoptera), in Nasekomye v rannemelovykh ekosistemakh zapadnoy Mongolii, The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition 28, 154-164

Kovalev O. V. (1994) Paleontological history, phylogeny, and systematics of Brachycleistogastromorpha, infraorder n., and Cynipomorpha infraorder n. (Hymenoptera) with descriptions of new fossil and recent families, subfamilies, and genera, Entomological Review 73 2, 385-426

Ren D. (1995) Insecta, Faunae and stratigraphy of Jurassic-Cretaceous in Beijing and the adjacent areas, 47-121

Engel M. S. (2017) New evanioid wasps from the Cenomanian of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Othniodellithidae, Aulacidae), with a summary of family-group names among Evanioidea, American Museum Novitates 3871, 1-28

Li L. F., Rasnitsyn A. P., et al (2018) Phylogeny of Evanioidea (Hymenoptera, Apocrita), with descriptions of new Mesozoic species from China and Myanmar, Systematic Entomology 43, 810-842

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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