Gryllinae

Gryllinae, or field crickets, are a subfamily of insects in the order Orthoptera and the family Gryllidae.

Gryllinae

R. E. Snodgrass · Public Domain · 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
Also called
field cricketPBDB
Sits inside
GryllidaePBDB
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 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 54 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 67 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 23 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 20 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93.9 Mya27.3 Mya102 Mya21 Mya

67 occurrences of Gryllinae 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

67 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

6 formations

Green River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.40°N, 108.21°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMargas Verdes — 23.53°S, 65.02°WWasatch — 39.79°N, 108.57°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°E

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The named rock units Gryllinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryllinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gryllinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,896 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Gryllinae, 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 67 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 Gryllinae

Credit
R. E. Snodgrass
Licence
Public Domain
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. Laicharting 1781