Deltocephalinae

Deltocephalinae is a subfamily of leafhoppers. Deltocephalinae is the largest subfamily in the family Cicadellidae and is divided about 30 tribes, and 7280 described species. A few of these are significant agricultural pests including green leafhopprs of rice in the tribe Chiasmini.

Deltocephalinae

Craig Pemberton · 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
Sits inside
CicadellidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 43 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Deltocephalinae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

43 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

5 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°W

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The named rock units Deltocephalinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Deltocephalinae and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Deltocephalinae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,004 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Deltocephalinae, 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

13 references

Each of the 43 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. 1 further reference is 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 Deltocephalinae

Credit
Craig Pemberton
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Dallas 1870