Membracoidea

Membracoidea

Uncredited · 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
CicadomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 268 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 12 of 268 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 18 of 268 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 268 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 268 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 40 of 268 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 268 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 268 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 268 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 39 of 268 occurrencesMiocene — about 40 of 268 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 268 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 268 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–220 Mya — about 4 occurrences220–212 Mya — about 5 occurrences212–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–195 Mya — about 4 occurrences195–187 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences187–179 Mya — about 13 occurrences179–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 5 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–114 Mya — about 27 occurrences114–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–90 Mya — about 8 occurrences90–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 53 occurrences33–24 Mya — about 26 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 34 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka244 Mya0 Mya

268 occurrences of Membracoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

268 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

45 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WTremembé — 22.95°S, 45.54°WLaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WMogotuin — 44.11°N, 106.93°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°W

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The named rock units Membracoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 105 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Membracoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Membracoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Membracoidea, 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

99 references

Each of the 268 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. 87 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 Membracoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Membracoidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itCicadomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815