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Gerontodacus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2019Gerontodacus Borkent p. 18
2020Gerontodacus Borkent and Dominiak p. 216

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
genusGerontodacus

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.

G. †Gerontodacus Borkent 2019
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Gerontodacus krzeminskii Choufani et al. 2015
Gerontodacus punctus Borkent 2000
Gerontodacus skalskii Szadziewski and Arillo 1998
Gerontodacus succineus Szadziewski 1996
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 Early/Lower Barremian to the top of the Late/Upper Albian or 130.00000 to 99.60000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Lebanon Protoculicoides krzeminskii (122471) Protoculicoides punctus (123017 123416 124617) Protoculicoides succineus (122359 124276)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Spain Protoculicoides skalskii (109438)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Spain (Álava) Protoculicoides skalskii (108769)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Spain (Aragón) Protoculicoides skalskii (91626)