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Siricidae (horntail)
Taxonomy
Siricides was named by Billberg (1820). It is extant. Its type is Sirex.
It was corrected as Siricidae by Maa (1949), Sharkey (2007), Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015), Archibald et al. (2018), Jouault and Nel (2020) and Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2022).
It was assigned to Symphyta by Carpenter (1992); and to Siricoidea by Maa (1949), Sharkey (2007), Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015), Archibald et al. (2018), Jouault and Nel (2020) and Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2022).
It was corrected as Siricidae by Maa (1949), Sharkey (2007), Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015), Archibald et al. (2018), Jouault and Nel (2020) and Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2022).
It was assigned to Symphyta by Carpenter (1992); and to Siricoidea by Maa (1949), Sharkey (2007), Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015), Archibald et al. (2018), Jouault and Nel (2020) and Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1820 | Siricides Billberg p. 98 |
| 1949 | Siricidae Maa |
| 1992 | Siricides Carpenter |
| 2007 | Siricidae Sharkey |
| 2010 | Siricidae Taeger et al. p. 97 |
| 2015 | Siricidae Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 213 |
| 2018 | Siricidae Archibald et al. p. 209 |
| 2020 | Siricidae Jouault and Nel p. 383 |
| 2022 | Siricidae Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 290 |
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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.
Fm. Siricidae Billberg 1820 [horntail]
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Subfm. †Auliscinae Rasnitsyn 1968
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Subfm. †Cratosiricinae Jouault and Nel 2020
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Subfm. Siricinae Billberg 1820
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G. †Eourocerus Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2022
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†Eourocerus anguliterreus Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2022
G. †Proximoxeris Nel 1991
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†Proximoxeris tripoliensis Nel 1991
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Invalid names: Proximoxeris tripolicola Riou 1999 [objective synonym]
Invalid names: Proximoxeris Riou 1999 [objective synonym]
G. Urocerus Geoffroy 1762
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†Urocerus dorbnikensis Manukyan 2021
Urocerus gigas Linnaeus 1758
†Urocerus ligniticus Piton 1940
†Urocerus patagonicus Fidalgo and Smith 1987
Invalid names: Eosirex Piton 1940 [synonym]
G. Xeris Costa 1894
G. †Ypresiosirex Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2015
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†Ypresiosirex orthosemos Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Toarcian to the top of the Piacenzian or 182.70000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 174.1 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 174.1 Ma
Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Toarcian | Kyrgyzstan (Batken) | Liasirex sogdianus (105124) | |
| Callovian - Oxfordian | Kazakhstan (Chimkent) | Gigasirex longipes, Aulisca odontura, Aulisca variicornis (105971) Megaulisca grossa (106101) Megura magnifica, Pararchexyela macroptera (105970) | |
| Late/Upper Barremian | China (Liaoning) | Cretosirex xiaoi (194296) | |
| Late/Upper Aptian | Brazil (Ceará) | Cratosirex sennlaubi (227841) | |
| Late/Upper Coniacian | Russian Federation (Khabarovsk) | Emanrisca empusa, Siricinae indet. (123528) | |
| Selandian | France (Auvergne) | Eosirex ligniticus (113685) Urocerus ligniticus (120579 166831) | |
| Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Ypresiosirex orthosemos (147816) | |
| Ypresian | Argentina (Chubut) | Urocerus patagonicus (151963) | |
| Ypresian | USA (Washington) | Eourocerus anguliterreus (104761) | |
| Wasatchian | USA (Wyoming) | Eoteredon lacoi (216597) | |
| MP 11 | Germany (Hessen) | Xoanon eocenicus (166830) | |
| Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | Megapterites mirabilis (127644) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) | Urocerus klebsi (123927) Xeris dorbnikensis, Xeris sp. (192258) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | France (Bouches-du-Rhone) | Xeris sp. (113989) | |
| MP 28 | Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) | Tremecinae indet. (160097) | |
| Sarmatian | Croatia | Urocerites spectabilis (117250) | |
| Turolian | France (Ardèche) | Proximoxeris tripoliensis (156164) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Tremex sp. (155690) |