Cimicoidea

Cimicoidea is a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha, including bedbugs and related families.

Cimicoidea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 192 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 75 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 75 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 75 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 75 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 35 of 75 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 75 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 75 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 75 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 75 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 16 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 17 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 22 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence192.9 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Cimicoidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

75 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

Yixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EGidarinskaya — 51.31°N, 119.61°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EShahai — 41.25°N, 120.03°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°E

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The named rock units Cimicoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cimicoidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

3,303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cimicoidea, 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

29 references

Each of the 75 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. 17 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 Cimicoidea

Credit
Photo by Jack Dykinga (uploaded by -- gian_d 22:03, 15 March 2008 (UTC))
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cimicoidea 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 itCimicomorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802