Archipsocus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchipsocinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
9 occurrences of Archipsocus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 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
2 formations
- Mazantic Shale Formation · Simojovel Group3
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation1
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The named rock units Archipsocus 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.
Archipsocus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Archipsocus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
973 taxa- Culicoides3 sites
- Formica flori3 sites
- Psocidus multiplex3 sites
- Sphaeropsocus kuenowii3 sites
- Amphientomum colpolepis2 sites
- Amphientomum leptolepis2 sites
- Amphientomum paradoxum2 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus2 sites
- Camponotus2 sites
- Ceratopogon2 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis2 sites
- Coniopteryx2 sites
- Crematogaster2 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti2 sites
- Dolichoderus2 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius2 sites
- Elipsocus abnormis2 sites
- Empheria reticulata2 sites
- Entomobrya2 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei2 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa2 sites
- Epipsocus avus2 sites
- Forcipomyia2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Archipsocus, 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
7 references- Systematic, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the insect fauna from Mexican amber3
- A new Archipsocidae (Psocodea: Psocomorpha) from the middle Miocene Zhangpu amber, China1
- Psocoptera (Insecta) in Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine)1
- New Psocoptera (Insecta) from the lowermost Eocene Amber of Oise, France1
- Fossil insects of the Order Psocoptera from Tertiary amber of Chiapas, Mexico1
- Die fossilen copeognathan und ihre phylogenie1
- Ueber Psociden in Bernstein1
Each of the 9 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 Archipsocus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Archipsocus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itArchipsocinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hagen 1882