The Gallorommatidae is an extinct family of microscopic
parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...
wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
s, belonging to the
Mymarommatoidea
The Mymarommatoidea are a very small superfamily of microscopic fairyfly-like parasitic wasps. It contains only a single living family, Mymarommatidae, and three other extinct families known from Cretaceous aged amber. Less than half of all descr ...
. It is known from several species found in
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...
aged amber.
[Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. (2007) New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). ''Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science'' 110: 159–168.]
Species
*†''Galloromma''
**†''
Galloromma agapa'' from
Taimyr amber Taymyr or Taimyr may refer to:
Places
*Taymyr Peninsula, a peninsula in Siberia
*Taymyr Gulf
*Taymyra, a river in the Taymyr Peninsula
*Lake Taymyr
*Taymyr Island, an island in the Kara Sea
*Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, a former federal subject of Rus ...
, Late Cretaceous (
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
)
**†''
Galloromma alavaensis'' from trhe
Escucha Formation
The Escucha Formation is a geological formation in La Rioja and Teruel provinces of northeastern Spain whose strata date back to the late Aptian to middle Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have bee ...
, Early Cretaceous (
Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0.9 M ...
)
**†''
Galloromma bezonnaisensis
The Gallorommatidae is an extinct family of microscopic parasitoid wasps, belonging to the Mymarommatoidea. It is known from several species found in Cretaceous aged amber.Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. (2007) New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amb ...
'' from Bezonnais amber, France, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
**†''
Galloromma kachinensis''
from
Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...
, mid Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian)
*†''Cretaceomma''
**†''Cretaceomma libanensis'' from
Lebanese amber
Lebanese amber is fossilized resin found in Lebanon and southwest Syria. It dates back approximately 130-125 million years to the Barremian of the Early Cretaceous. It formed on what was then the northern coast of Gondwana, believed to be a tropica ...
, Early Cretaceous (
Barremian
The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series). It is preceded ...
)
**†''Cretaceomma turolensis'' also from the Eschucha Formation.
References
Parasitica
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Prehistoric hymenoptera
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