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Cretastatus longevus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Astatidae

Taxonomy
Cretastatus longevus was named by Rosa and Melo (2021). Its type specimen is DZUP Bur-501, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Universidad Federal do Paraná DZUP coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Cretastatus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Cretastatus longevus Rosa and Melo p. 10 figs. 4, S2

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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()
superfamilyApoidea
familyAstatidae(Lepeletier 1845)
tribeCretastatini
genusCretastatus
specieslongevus

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.

†Cretastatus longevus Rosa and Melo 2021
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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 Cretastatus longevus (type locality: 216576)