Eolepidopterigidae

Eolepidopterigoidea is an extinct superfamily of moths, containing the single family Eolepidopterigidae, although the genus Undopterix is sometimes placed in a separate family Undopterigidae. The type-genus of the family is Eolepidopterix.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 3 of 23 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 23 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 11 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous186–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences182.9 Mya119.57 Mya186 Mya112 Mya

23 occurrences of Eolepidopterigidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

23 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

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°E

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The named rock units Eolepidopterigidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eolepidopterigidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Eolepidopterigidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

965 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Eolepidopterigidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 23 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. 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

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No picture of Eolepidopterigidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eolepidopterigidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eolepidopterigidae 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 itEolepidopterigoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasnitsyn 1983