Anisolabididae
Anisolabididae is a family of earwigs, in the suborder Neodermaptera and the order Dermaptera.

Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- AnisolabidoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 76 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
21 occurrences of Anisolabididae 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
21 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.
Found in
3 formations
- Florissant Formation10
- Crato Formation · Santana Group7
- Margas Verdes Formation1
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The named rock units Anisolabididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anisolabididae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anisolabididae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
763 taxa- Chresmoda neotropica3 sites
- Ephemeroidea3 sites
- Ephemeroptera3 sites
- Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus3 sites
- Mariconitermes talicei3 sites
- Meiatermes araripena3 sites
- Pristiplocia rupestris3 sites
- Wightonia araripina3 sites
- Ampulicidae2 sites
- Anthonomus defossus2 sites
- Araripegomphus andreneli2 sites
- Araripeliupanshania annesuseae2 sites
- Araripeneura damianii2 sites
- Araripeneura regia2 sites
- Araripephlebia mirabilis2 sites
- Burmomerope eureka2 sites
- Cariridris bipetiolata2 sites
- Caririlabia santanensis2 sites
- Cearagrylloides perforatorius2 sites
- Colocrus indivicum2 sites
- Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) xavieri2 sites
- Cordulagomphus fenestratus2 sites
- Cratoborellia gorbi2 sites
- Cratoelcana zessini2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Anisolabididae, 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
11 references- The Tertiary Insects of North America6
- Martill et al., 20074
- New mid-Cretaceous earwigs in amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera)2
- Brief synopsis of North America earwigs, with an appendix on the fossil species2
- Earwig nymphs (Dermaptera) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar1
- Early Cretaceous earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Santana Formation, Brazil1
- Primeiro registro de Dermaptera (Insecta, Orthopteromorpha) na Formação Santana (Cretáceo Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, nordeste do Brasil1
- Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 4: Dermaptera1
- Fossil insects in the United States National Museum1
- Tertiary Fossil Insects from Argentina1
- Fossil Orthoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries1
Each of the 21 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 Anisolabididae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anisolabididae 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
- 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 itAnisolabidoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Verhoeff 1902