Cercopoidea

Cercopoidea

Kaldari · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
Also called
froghopperPBDB
Sits inside
CicadomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 265 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 265 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 265 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 265 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 17 of 265 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 265 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 27 of 265 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 35 of 265 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 265 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 265 occurrencesEocene — about 74 of 265 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 265 occurrencesMiocene — about 46 of 265 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 265 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 265 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences233–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–216 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–190 Mya — about 3 occurrences190–181 Mya — about 13 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 32 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 20 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 11 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 16 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 10 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 14 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 42 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 25 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 15 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 37 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences251.902 Mya11.7 ka259 Mya0 Mya

265 occurrences of Cercopoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

265 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

42 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EYixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°EYixian — 40.97°N, 117.90°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WAllenby — 49.37°N, 120.59°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EJiulongshan — 40.91°N, 118.32°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EJiufotang — 41.08°N, 119.60°EJiufotang — 41.05°N, 119.85°ELushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°EHaifanggou — 40.97°N, 120.35°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBadaowan — 44.17°N, 86.00°EBadaowan — 45.60°N, 84.90°ELa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EPing Chau — 22.55°N, 114.42°EPing Chau — 22.55°N, 114.43°EYangshuzhuang — 35.06°N, 112.48°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°Winterbasaltic plant-beds — 56.34°N, 6.23°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°E

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The named rock units Cercopoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cercopoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cercopoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Cercopoidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

103 references

Each of the 265 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. 91 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 content1

Picture of Cercopoidea

Credit
Kaldari
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cercopoidea 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 itCicadomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815