Anaplecta
Anaplecta is a genus in the family Anaplectidae. There are at least 20 described species in Anaplecta.

Rodolfosalinas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AnaplectidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Anaplecta 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
5 occurrencesThese 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.
Anaplecta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anaplecta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
370 taxa- Mastotermes2 sites
- Acamptus exilipes1 site
- Acroprivesa msandarusi1 site
- Acropyga1 site
- Acropyga glaesaria1 site
- Aethiopomyia gigas1 site
- Agelaia electra1 site
- Alienates1 site
- Alienates brodzinskyi1 site
- Alienates electrodominicus1 site
- Ambradolon grimaldii1 site
- Amitermes lucidus1 site
- Amnestus electricus1 site
- Amnestus priscus1 site
- Amoea electrodominicana1 site
- Amusurgus africanus1 site
- Anacaena paleodominica1 site
- Anchonus bothynus1 site
- Anopheles1 site
- Anoplotermes bohio1 site
- Anoplotermes cacique1 site
- Anoplotermes carib1 site
- Anoplotermes maboya1 site
- Anoplotermes naboria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Anaplecta, 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
4 references- A catalogue of the collections of Mexican amber at the Natural History Museum, London and National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK2
- Living cockroach genus Anaplecta discovered in Chiapas amber (Blattaria: Ectobiidae: Anaplecta vega sp.n.)1
- Annotated checklist of Hispaniolan cockroaches1
- The British Museum collection of Blattidae enclosed in amber1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Anaplecta
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Rodolfosalinas
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anaplecta 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anaplecta”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnaplectidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1838