Cylapinae

Cylapinae is a subfamily of plant bugs. Bugs in this group tend to forage actively on fungus covered rotten logs in humid tropical forests.

Cylapinae

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
Sits inside
MiridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 28 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 12 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–1.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya5.333 Mya115 Mya1 Mya

31 occurrences of Cylapinae 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

31 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

2 formations

Piney Point — 37.60°N, 77.09°WTapolca Basalt — 47.00°N, 17.63°E

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The named rock units Cylapinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cylapinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cylapinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,537 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cylapinae, 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

17 references

Each of the 31 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. 5 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 Cylapinae

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

No 3D scan of Cylapinae 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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What may have been alongside itMiridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirkaldy 1903