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Zorotypus (Octozoros)

Insecta - Zoraptera - Zorotypidae

Taxonomy

Zorotypus (Octozoros) was named by Engel (2003). Its type is Zorotypus nascimbenei.

It was assigned to Zorotypus by Engel (2003), Yin et al. (2017), Mashimo et al. (2018), Mashimo (2019), Chen and Su (2019) and Chen and Su (2019).

Subtaxa

Zorotypus (Octozoros) acanthothorax, Zorotypus (Octozoros) cenomanianus (syn. Zorotypus robustus), Zorotypus (Octozoros) hirsutus, Zorotypus (Octozoros) hudae, Zorotypus (Octozoros) hukawngi, Zorotypus (Octozoros) nascimbenei, Zorotypus (Octozoros) pecten, Zorotypus (Octozoros) pusillus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2003	Zorotypus (Octozoros) Engel
2017	Zorotypus (Octozoros) Yin et al. p. 169
2018	Zorotypus (Octozoros) Mashimo et al. p. 563
2019	Zorotypus (Octozoros) Chen and Su p. 264
2019	Zorotypus (Octozoros) Mashimo p. 566

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
—	Haplocercata
order	Zoraptera	Silvestri 1913
family	Zorotypidae	Silvestri 1913
genus	Zorotypus	Silvestri 1913
subgenus	Octozoros

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.

Subg. †Zorotypus (Octozoros) Engel 2003

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†Zorotypus (Octozoros) acanthothorax Engel and Grimaldi 2002

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) cenomanianus Yin et al. 2017

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Invalid names: Zorotypus robustus Liu et al. 2018 [synonym]

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) hirsutus Mashimo 2018

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) hudae Kaddumi 2005

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) hukawngi Chen and Su 2019

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) nascimbenei Engel and Grimaldi 2002

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) pecten Mashimo 2019

†Zorotypus (Octozoros) pusillus Chen and Su 2019

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: base of the Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 113.00000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Jordan	Paleospinosus hudae (124847)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Myanmar	Zorotypus cenomanianus (161726) Zorotypus hirsutus, Zorotypus pecten (184692) Zorotypus hukawngi, Zorotypus pusillus (188400) Zorotypus nascimbenei, Zorotypus acanthothorax (111688) Zorotypus robustus (178121)