Phryganea

Phryganea is a genus of giant caddisflies in the family Phryganeidae. Species in the genus are found throughout the northern hemisphere, of which about 13 are found in N. America.

Phryganea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 48 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 48 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 48 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 22 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 9 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences93.9 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Phryganea 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

48 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

9 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.61°N, 117.43°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°EAtanikerluk — 70.06°N, 52.22°WDarmakan — 49.42°N, 130.07°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.11°N, 14.85°E

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The named rock units Phryganea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phryganea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Phryganea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,546 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Phryganea, 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

24 references

Each of the 48 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. 12 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 Phryganea

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 Phryganea 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 itPhryganeidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758