Archescytinidae

Archescytinidae is an extinct family belonging to the order Hemiptera that was first defined by Robert John Tillyard in 1926. They existed between the Asselian epoch of the Early Permian and the Toarcian epoch of the Early Jurassic.

Archescytinidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 90 occurrencesPermian — about 88 of 90 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 90 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 90 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 90 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–293 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences293–288 Mya — about 6 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 17 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 11 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 9 occurrences276–271 Mya — about 17 occurrences271–267 Mya — about 20 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 7 occurrences228–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293.52 Mya184.2 Mya301 Mya172 Mya

90 occurrences of Archescytinidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

90 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

11 formations

Wellington — 36.28°N, 97.28°WWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WKoshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°EKoshelevka — 57.77°N, 57.84°EKoshelevka — 57.37°N, 57.23°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.60°N, 43.62°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°ETersinskaya — 53.45°N, 87.31°ESheimo-Gora Beds — 65.54°N, 43.67°ECow Branch — 36.54°N, 79.67°WBursum — 34.84°N, 106.91°WChangliangzi — 40.94°N, 124.39°ESalagou — 43.64°N, 3.33°E

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The named rock units Archescytinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archescytinidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Archescytinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

874 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Archescytinidae, 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

21 references

Each of the 90 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. 9 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

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Picture of Archescytinidae

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No 3D scan of Archescytinidae 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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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itArchescytinoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1926