Elcanidae

Elcanidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
lagoon cricketPBDB
Sits inside
ElcanoideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 5 of 255 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 140 of 255 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 255 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 255 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 62 of 255 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 255 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 255 occurrences231–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–219 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–196 Mya — about 9 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 12 occurrences184–178 Mya — about 107 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 12 occurrences167–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 6 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 17 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 9 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 9 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 30 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 6 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–91 Mya — about 8 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence205.7 Mya61.66 Mya231 Mya56 Mya

255 occurrences of Elcanidae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

255 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

26 formations

Posidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.03°N, 10.29°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 49.00°N, 11.70°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WDurlston — 50.60°N, 2.01°WWeald Clay — 50.83°N, 0.43°EWeald Clay — 51.10°N, 0.45°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.74°N, 117.36°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ESagul — 39.96°N, 70.68°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°WBlue Lias — 52.19°N, 1.79°WLilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WUkurei — 52.31°N, 117.04°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EShiti — 24.46°N, 111.50°EBeacon Limstone — 50.93°N, 2.91°WCow Branch — 36.54°N, 79.67°W

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The named rock units Elcanidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 108 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elcanidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Elcanidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

3,897 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Elcanidae, 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

58 references

Each of the 255 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. 46 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 Elcanidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Elcanidae 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 itElcanoidea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906