Haglidae
The superfamily Hagloidea are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera: Ensifera; they are now represented by the extant Prophalangopsidae, with many extinct genera and families. The group in its broad sense has been suggested to be paraphyletic and ancestral to all other members of Tettigoniidea.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- hump-winged cricketPBDB
- Sits inside
- HagloideaPBDB
- 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 167 million years on record.
The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
129 occurrences of Haglidae on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
129 occurrences- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassic40%
- Late Triassic17%
- Early Jurassic22%
- Middle Jurassic7%
- Late Jurassic5%
- Early Cretaceous8%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
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
- Madygen Formation51
- Molteno Formation · Stormberg Group7
- Dzhil Formation6
- Sagul Formation6
- Bakhar Formation5
- Sulyukta Formation4
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The named rock units Haglidae 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. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Haglidae and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Haglidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
1,555 taxa- Hagla gracilis7 sites
- Dicroidium6 sites
- Gymnospermopsida6 sites
- Heidiphyllum6 sites
- Odonata6 sites
- Pteridophyta6 sites
- Equisetum5 sites
- Muscites5 sites
- Pteridopsida5 sites
- Sphenobaiera5 sites
- Stachyopitys5 sites
- Taeniopteris5 sites
- Austroidelia asiatica4 sites
- Austroidelia nervosa4 sites
- Campterophlebiidae4 sites
- Coleoptera4 sites
- Costatoviblatta aenigmatosa4 sites
- Dordrechtites sp.4 sites
- Fanerotheca4 sites
- Gorochovia individua4 sites
- Gryllidae4 sites
- Holcoptera schlotheimi4 sites
- Kennedya carpenteri4 sites
- Lepidopteris4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Haglidae, 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
38 references- Triasovye priyamokrylye nadsemeystva Hagloidea (Orthoptera)43
- Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh14
- The Lower and Middle Jurassic superfamily Hagloidea (Orthoptera)11
- New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa5
- Yurskie pryamokrylye yuzhnoy Sibiri i zapadnoy Mongolii (Gryllida=Orthoptera)5
- Zeuner, 19395
- Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera5
- Die Insecten und Spinnen der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Insekten und Spinnen3
- Systematics review and phylogeny of Cyrtophyllitinae Zeuner, 1935 sensu Gorochov, Jarzembowski & Coram, 2006 (Ensifera, Haglidae), with description of two new species2
- A new species of Cyrtophyllitinae (Insecta: Ensifera) from the Cretaceous China2
- The Triassic insect fauna from South America (Argentina, Brazil and Chile): a checklist (except Blattoptera and Coleoptera) and descriptions of new taxa2
- Haglidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) aus der obertriassichen Molteno-Formation im südlichen Afrika2
Each of the 129 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. 26 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 Haglidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kevinjudge
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Haglidae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Hagloidea”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHagloidea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906