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Gymnoscelis imparatalis coquina

Florida, USA

Gymnoscelis imparatalis coquina

Florida, USA

Gymnoscelis imparatalis coquina

Florida, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	136330	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=136330

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Lepidoptera : Geometridae

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	Amphiesmenoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
order	Lepidoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Glossata	Fabricius 1775
-	Coelolepida	Nielsen and Kristensen 1996
-	Myoglossata	Kristensen and Nielsen 1981
-	Neolepidoptera	Packard 1895
infraorder	Heteroneura	Tillyard 1918
-	Eulepidoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
-	Ditrysia	Borner 1925
-	Apoditrysia	Minet 1983
-	Obtectomera	Minet 1986
-	Macroheterocera	Chapman 1893
superfamily	Geometroidea	Leach 1815
family	Geometridae	Leach 1815

Common Name

geometer moth

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Geometridae	family	belongs to Ditrysia	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Geometridae	family	belongs to Geometroidea	stated with evidence	Sohn et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

8 (42%)

First Recorded Appearance

92.1 - 83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ennominae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Larentiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	1	92.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Angerona genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Geometra genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Geometridites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	38.0 Ma Eocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Hydriomena genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Phalaenites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	12.7 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Problongos ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	8.70 Ma Miocene	8.70 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Geometridae Leach p. 134
1992	Geometridae Carpenter
2012	Geometridae Sohn et al. p. 76
2019	Geometridae Fischer et al. p. 1

References

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

Sohn J. C., Labandeira C., et al (2012) An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world, Zootaxa 3286, 1-132

Fischer T. C., Michalski A., et al (2019) Geometrid caterpillar in Eocene Baltic amber (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), Scientific Reports 9 17201, 1-4

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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