Ectobiidae

Ectobiidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 51 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 31 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–117 Mya — about 5 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 6 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 10 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 10 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121.4 Mya27.3 Mya128 Mya21 Mya

51 occurrences of Ectobiidae 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

51 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

10 formations

Green River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 39.40°N, 108.21°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ECrato — 7.14°S, 39.72°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBembridge Marls — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ESharin-Gol — 45.35°N, 109.85°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ETamayama — 37.15°N, 140.95°E

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The named rock units Ectobiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ectobiidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ectobiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,577 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Ectobiidae, 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

21 references

Each of the 51 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. 9 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 Ectobiidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ectobiidae 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itBlaberoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865