Chrysopidae

Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera.

Chrysopidae

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
green lacewingPBDB
Sits inside
HemerobioideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 151 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 125 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 125 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 125 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 125 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 125 occurrencesEocene — about 52 of 125 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 125 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 125 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 125 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 125 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 6 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 13 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–51 Mya — about 19 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 10 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 21 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 15 occurrences11–5.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence154.8 Mya3.6 Mya169 Mya0 Mya

125 occurrences of Chrysopidae 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

125 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

25 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WFlorissant — 38.55°N, 105.17°WFur — 56.89°N, 8.73°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.82°EFur — 56.84°N, 9.00°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WCreede — 37.84°N, 106.92°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WBembridge Marls — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBembridge Marls — 50.75°N, 1.34°WOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EBotchi — 47.99°N, 139.45°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°ETadushi — 44.26°N, 135.30°EMonteils — 44.09°N, 4.18°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EAntero — 39.11°N, 105.71°WBuxin — 23.18°N, 112.84°E

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The named rock units Chrysopidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysopidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Chrysopidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Chrysopidae, 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

51 references

Each of the 125 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. 39 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 Chrysopidae

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chrysopidae 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schneider 1851