Coniopterygidae

The dustywings, Coniopterygidae, are a family of Pterygota of the net-winged insect order (Neuroptera). About 460 living species are known. These tiny insects can usually be determined to genus with a hand lens according to their wing venation, but to distinguish species, examination of the genitals by microscope is usually necessary.

Coniopterygidae

Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA · 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
Also called
dustywingPBDB
Sits inside
ConiopterygoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 182 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 65 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 65 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 65 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 31 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 20 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 7 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 13 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences182.9 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Coniopterygidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

65 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

6 formations

Raritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°ELas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°W

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The named rock units Coniopterygidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coniopterygidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Coniopterygidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4,439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Coniopterygidae, 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

36 references

Each of the 65 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. 24 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 Coniopterygidae

Credit
Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coniopterygidae 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

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

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What may have been alongside itConiopterygoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1839