Neodermaptera

Neodermaptera, sometimes called Catadermaptera, is a suborder of earwigs in the order Dermaptera. There are more than 2,000 described species in Neodermaptera.

Neodermaptera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 19 of 115 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 115 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 115 occurrencesEocene — about 45 of 115 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 115 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 115 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 115 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 7 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 15 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 31 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

115 occurrences of Neodermaptera 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

115 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

20 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EØlst — 56.84°N, 8.96°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WMargas Verdes — 23.53°S, 65.02°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ECastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°WDalazi — 42.65°N, 129.61°EFur — 56.90°N, 8.75°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°ESkarðsströnd–Mókollsdalur — 65.51°N, 21.53°WJinju — 35.17°N, 128.13°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Neodermaptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neodermaptera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Neodermaptera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Neodermaptera, 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

57 references

Each of the 115 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. 45 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 Neodermaptera

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neodermaptera 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engel 2003