Grylloidea

Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order Orthoptera, known as crickets. It includes the "true crickets", scaly crickets, wood crickets and many other subfamilies, now placed in six extant families; some genera are only known from fossils.

Grylloidea

Entomart · Attribution · 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
GryllideaPBDB
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 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 5 of 242 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 44 of 242 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 242 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 12 of 242 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 74 of 242 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 242 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 242 occurrencesEocene — about 59 of 242 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 242 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 242 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 242 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 242 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 3 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 7 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–182 Mya — about 32 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 5 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 7 occurrences147–140 Mya — about 6 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 14 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 51 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 10 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 14 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–49 Mya — about 18 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 30 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 9 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

242 occurrences of Grylloidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

242 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

31 formations

Crato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 39.40°N, 108.21°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WPosidonia 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°EWeald Clay — 51.14°N, 0.33°WWeald Clay — 51.10°N, 0.45°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.42°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EBakhar — 45.22°N, 99.17°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ESangonghe — 43.65°N, 87.15°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°WLilstock — 51.99°N, 2.21°WLilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EClarens — 30.42°S, 28.75°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EPoole — 50.67°N, 2.09°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°E

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The named rock units Grylloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Grylloidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Grylloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4,088 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Grylloidea, 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

56 references

Each of the 242 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. 44 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

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Picture of Grylloidea

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

The description on this site

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