Acridoidea

Acridoidea is the largest superfamily of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera with over 11,000 species found on every continent except Antarctica.

Acridoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcridomorphaPBDB
Diet
grazer, herbivorePBDB, for Caelifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Caelifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Caelifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Caelifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Caelifera

Time the record covers

At least 182 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 87 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 87 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 87 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 87 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 87 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 87 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 87 occurrencesMiocene — about 46 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 87 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 21 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences182.9 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Acridoidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

87 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

13 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WHachiya — 35.48°N, 137.11°EPabdeh — 32.35°N, 50.42°EHetaoyuan — 32.69°N, 112.79°E

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The named rock units Acridoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acridoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Acridoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Acridoidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

37 references

Each of the 87 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 25 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Acridoidea

Credit
KarlR
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Acridoidea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcridomorpha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802