Aeolothripidae

The Aeolothripidae are a family of thrips. They are particularly common in the holarctic region, although several occur in the drier parts of the subtropics, including dozens in Australia. Adults and larvae are usually found in flowers, but they pupate on the ground. While they normally prey on other arthropods, many feed also on flowers.

Aeolothripidae

Heeger, Ernst · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebrantiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 90 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesMiocene124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya23.04 Mya124 Mya14 Mya

24 occurrences of Aeolothripidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

24 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

5 formations

Bouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°W

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The named rock units Aeolothripidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aeolothripidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aeolothripidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,317 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Aeolothripidae, 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

15 references

Each of the 24 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. 3 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 Aeolothripidae

Credit
Heeger, Ernst
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aeolothripidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

The description on this site

Licence
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 itTerebrantia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Uzel 1895