Neoptera

Neoptera is a classification group that includes most orders of the winged insects, specifically those that can flex their wings over their abdomens. This is in contrast with the more basal orders of winged insects, which are unable to flex their wings in this way.

Neoptera

Mike · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
NeopterygotaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 319 million years on record.

The record covers at least 320 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 425 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1898 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 10 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 474 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 413 of 12000 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 892 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 145 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 882 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1232 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 759 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 179 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 2719 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 842 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 1035 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 67 of 12000 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 8 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 196 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 274 occurrences297–286 Mya — about 327 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 362 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 710 occurrences264–253 Mya — about 315 occurrences253–242 Mya — about 239 occurrences242–231 Mya — about 479 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 119 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 91 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 196 occurrences198–187 Mya — about 137 occurrences187–176 Mya — about 641 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 89 occurrences165–154 Mya — about 346 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 615 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 111 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 508 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 523 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 135 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 321 occurrences88–77 Mya — about 253 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 136 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 221 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 592 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 2147 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 801 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 905 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 206 occurrences320 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Neoptera on record. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 362 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.03°N, 10.29°EPosidonia Shale — 52.05°N, 10.13°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.89°EPosidonia Shale — 48.63°N, 9.51°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.03°N, 70.25°EMadygen — 40.00°N, 70.20°EWellington — 36.51°N, 97.32°WWellington — 36.35°N, 97.30°WWellington — 36.50°N, 97.44°WWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WGreen River — 42.00°N, 107.00°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.35°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 38.80°N, 108.25°WGreen River — 42.58°N, 109.94°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 39.62°N, 108.01°WGreen River — 40.01°N, 108.11°WGreen River — 39.79°N, 109.07°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EMitina — 53.85°N, 87.48°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.60°N, 43.62°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EDaohugou — 41.38°N, 119.25°EDaohugou — 41.38°N, 119.15°EDaohugou — 41.37°N, 119.38°ECroudace Bay — 33.00°S, 151.68°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.33°N, 119.13°EYixian — 41.51°N, 118.85°EYixian — 41.38°N, 116.28°EYixian — 40.91°N, 117.92°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.75°N, 120.80°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 42.04°N, 116.63°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EZaza — 53.20°N, 112.82°EZaza — 53.17°N, 111.77°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCrato — 7.12°S, 39.76°WKoshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°EKoshelevka — 57.37°N, 57.23°EKoshelevka — 57.77°N, 57.84°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.26°WCarbondale — 41.30°N, 88.15°WCarbondale — 39.93°N, 87.70°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WCarbondale — 40.05°N, 87.57°WCarbondale — 39.97°N, 87.58°WCarbondale — 40.40°N, 90.80°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WDzun-Bain — 44.75°N, 101.75°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Neoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 338 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3,084 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

7,098 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 444 sites for Neoptera, and this reads 240 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

at least 1,762 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,750 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 Neoptera

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

No 3D scan of Neoptera 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martynov 1923