Procercopidae

Procercopidae is an extinct family of froghoppers. They are known from the Early Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous of Eurasia. They are one of two main families of Mesozoic froghoppers alongside Sinoalidae. Procercopidae are considered to be the ancestral group from which modern froghoppers are derived.

Procercopidae

Jun CHEN, Bo WANG, Haichun ZHANG, Xiaoli WANG, Xiaoting ZHENG · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CercopoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 66 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 17 of 66 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 66 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 10 of 66 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 31 of 66 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 66 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–189 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 12 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 5 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 5 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 16 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 5 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 5 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192.9 Mya100.5 Mya204 Mya92 Mya

66 occurrences of Procercopidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

66 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

16 formations

Yixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°EYixian — 40.97°N, 117.90°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EJiufotang — 41.08°N, 119.60°EJiufotang — 41.05°N, 119.85°ELushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°EHaifanggou — 40.97°N, 120.35°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EJiulongshan — 40.91°N, 118.32°EBadaowan — 44.17°N, 86.00°EBadaowan — 45.60°N, 84.90°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGidarinskaya — 51.32°N, 119.55°EDaya — 51.88°N, 117.43°ESinuiju — 40.08°N, 124.42°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WYangshuzhuang — 35.06°N, 112.48°E

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The named rock units Procercopidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procercopidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Procercopidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Procercopidae, 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

32 references

Each of the 66 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. 20 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 Procercopidae

Credit
Jun CHEN, Bo WANG, Haichun ZHANG, Xiaoli WANG, Xiaoting ZHENG
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procercopidae 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 itCercopoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906