Pamphiliidae

Pamphiliidae is a small family within Symphyta, containing some 200 species from the temperate regions of North America and Eurasia. The larvae feed on plants, using silk to build webs or tents, or to roll leaves into tubes in which they feed, thus earning them the common names leaf-rolling sawflies or web-spinning sawflies. Some species are gregarious and the larvae live in large groups. Fossils of Pamphiliidae have been dated to the Jurassic period.

Pamphiliidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 146 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences154.8 Mya8.725 Mya169 Mya2 Mya

20 occurrences of Pamphiliidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

20 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

7 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 42.08°N, 116.56°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBotchi — 47.99°N, 139.45°EUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°ECreede — 37.84°N, 106.92°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°W

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The named rock units Pamphiliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pamphiliidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pamphiliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pamphiliidae, 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

14 references

Each of the 20 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. 2 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 Pamphiliidae

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

No 3D scan of Pamphiliidae 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

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 itPamphilioidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cameron 1890)