Liberiblattinidae

Liberiblattinidae is an extinct family of cockroaches known from the Jurassic to Cretaceous. Some taxa, like Cryptoblatta and Hydrokhoohydra, are suggested to be semiaquatic. Spongistoma is suggested to be a nectarivore due to its unique sucking/sponging "proboscis" mouthparts. Some authors have suggested that the family is ancestral to Mantodea.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 3 of 148 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 148 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 103 of 148 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 148 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 148 occurrencesLate Cretaceous186–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 8 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 60 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 42 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 6 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182.9 Mya85.7 Mya186 Mya70 Mya

148 occurrences of Liberiblattinidae 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

148 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

13 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EBakhar — 45.22°N, 99.17°EJinju — 35.13°N, 128.10°EJinju — 36.25°N, 128.63°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°ECattamarra Coal Measures — 30.26°S, 115.23°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EDoronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EPhra Wihan — 18.49°N, 100.51°EArkagala — 63.25°N, 146.74°E

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The named rock units Liberiblattinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liberiblattinidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

2,857 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Liberiblattinidae, 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

28 references

Each of the 148 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. 16 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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No picture of Liberiblattinidae 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 Liberiblattinidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Liberiblattinidae 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

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

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What may have been alongside itRaphidiomimoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vršanský 2002