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Zorotypus
| Description | The insect order Zoraptera, commonly known as angel insects, contains a single family, the Zorotypidae, which in turn contains one extant genus Zorotypus with 44 extant species and 11 species known from fossils. They are small and soft bodied insects with two forms: winged with wings sheddable as in termites, dark and with eyes (compound) and ocelli (simple); or wingless, pale and without eyes or ocelli. They have a characteristic nine-segmented beaded (moniliform) antenna. They have mouthparts adapted for chewing and are mostly found under bark, in dry wood or in leaf litter. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorotypus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Zoraptera : Zorotypidae : Zorotypus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Silvestri. 1913. Descrizione di un nuovo ordine di insetti. Bolletino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d' Agricoltura in Portici (Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici) 7:193-209 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 2 (11%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 113 - 101 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | terrestrial (based on Insecta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Arthropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | chitin (based on Insecta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | M. S. Engel and D. A. Grimaldi. 2002. The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). American Museum Novitates 3362:1-20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorotypus |
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Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Zorotypus (Octozoros) ✝ subgenus | listed (PBDB) | 9 | 113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Zorotypus (Zorotypus) subgenus | listed (PBDB) | 6 | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Zorotypus absonus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus acanthothorax species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus amazonensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus asymmetricus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus barberi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus brasiliensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus buxtoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus caudelli species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus caxiuana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus cenomanianus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus cervicornis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus ceylonicus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus congensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus cramptoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus cretatus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Zorotypus delamarei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus denticulatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus goeleti species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus guineensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus gurneyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus hainanensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus hamiltoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus huangi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus hubbardi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus hudae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus huxleyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus impolitus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus javanicus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus juninensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus lawrencei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus leleupi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus longicercatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus magnicaudelli species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus manni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus medoensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus mexicanus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus mnemosyne species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus nascimbenei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus neotropicus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus newi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus novobritannicus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus oligophleps species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus palaeus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 20.4 Ma Miocene | 20.4 Ma Miocene | |
| Zorotypus pecten species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus philippinensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus robustus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus sechellensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus shannoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus silvestrii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus sinensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus snyderi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus swezeyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus vinsoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus weidneri species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus weiweii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zorotypus zimmermani species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1913 | Zorotypus Silvestri |
| 2002 | Zorotypus Engel and Grimaldi p. 4 |
| 2005 | Paleospinosus Kaddumi |
| 2007 | Palaeospinosus Kaddumi p. 218 |
| 2017 | Zorotypus Yin et al. p. 169 |
| 2018 | Zorotypus Liu et al. p. 260 |
| 2018 | Zorotypus Mashimo et al. p. 563 |
| 2018 | Zorotypus Yin et al. p. 127 |
| 2019 | Zorotypus Chen and Su p. 264 |
| 2019 | Zorotypus Mashimo p. 566 |
References
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!
