Calamoceratidae

Calamoceratidae is a family of caddisflies in the order Trichoptera. There are about 9 genera and at least 120 described species in the family Calamoceratidae.

Calamoceratidae

Donald Hobern · CC BY 2.0 · 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
LeptoceroideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocene142–137 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137.05 Mya15.98 Mya142 Mya9 Mya

13 occurrences of Calamoceratidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

13 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

3 formations

Doronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°E

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The named rock units Calamoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calamoceratidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Calamoceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,392 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Calamoceratidae, 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

Each of the 13 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 Calamoceratidae

Credit
Donald Hobern
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Calamoceratidae 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.

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 itLeptoceroidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulmer 1905