Aphrophoridae

The Aphrophoridae are a family of spittlebugs belonging to the order Hemiptera. There are at least 160 genera and 990 described species in Aphrophoridae.

Aphrophoridae

Didier Descouens · 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
CercopoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 29 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 66 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 66 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 12 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences59.24 Mya12.8 Mya63 Mya11 Mya

66 occurrences of Aphrophoridae 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

66 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

9 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ESivik — 41.62°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Aphrophoridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphrophoridae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aphrophoridae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,764 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Aphrophoridae, 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

18 references

Each of the 66 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. 6 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 content2

Picture of Aphrophoridae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
tunosemi
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itCercopoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843)