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Sclerodermus quadridentatus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Taxonomy
Scleroderma quadridentatum was named by Cockerell (1917). Its type specimen is BMNH In.19116, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Sclerodermus quadridentatum by Spahr (1987) and Ross and York (2000); it was recombined as Sclerodermus quadridentatus by Sorg (1988), Azevedo and Azar (2012), Azevedo et al. (2018) and Colombo and Azevedo (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Scleroderma quadridentatum Cockerell p. 43 fig. 5
1987Sclerodermus quadridentatum Spahr p. 20
1988Sclerodermus quadridentatus Sorg p. 73
2000Sclerodermus quadridentatum Ross and York p. 14
2012Sclerodermus quadridentatus Azevedo and Azar p. 217
2018Sclerodermus quadridentatus Azevedo et al. p. 250
2019Sclerodermus quadridentatus Colombo and Azevedo p. 636

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyChrysidoidea
familyBethylidaeForster 1856
subfamilyScleroderminae(Kieffer 1914)
genusSclerodermusLatreille 1809
speciesquadridentatus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Sclerodermus quadridentatus Cockerell 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Scleroderma quadridentatum (type locality: 123020)