Pentacentrinae

Pentacentrinae is a subfamily of crickets in the family Gryllidae. Sometimes known as 'Silent Litter Crickets', they occur in tropical Asia, Africa and the Americas. The tribe Lissotrachelini Hubbell, 1938 has been moved to the Nemobiinae.

Pentacentrinae

Heads, S.; Penney, D.; Green, D. (2012) · CC BY 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
GryllidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence45.9 Mya11.7 ka52 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Pentacentrinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

11 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

2 formations

Green River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Pentacentrinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentacentrinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pentacentrinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pentacentrinae, 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

4 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pentacentrinae

Credit
Heads, S.; Penney, D.; Green, D. (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pentacentrinae 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 itGryllidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saussure 1878