Kalotermitidae

Kalotermitidae

Uncredited · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
IcoisopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 77 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 77 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 77 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 77 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 77 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 77 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 77 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 13 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 13 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–8.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.1–4.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka122 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Kalotermitidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

77 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

17 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EMonteils — 44.09°N, 4.18°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Kalotermitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kalotermitidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Kalotermitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,842 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Kalotermitidae, 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

42 references

Each of the 77 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. 30 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 Kalotermitidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIcoisoptera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Froggatt 1897)