Prohemerobiidae

Not Prohemerobiidae. This is Prohemerobius Handlirsch, 1906, a relative — both are Prohemerobiidae.
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- PsychopsoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 173 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
53 occurrences of Prohemerobiidae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
53 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Posidonia Shale Formation21
- Whitby Mudstone Formation5
- Sharteg Formation1
- Sulyukta Formation1
- Baitugan Formation1
- Dzun-Bain Formation · Bon Tsaagan Group1
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The named rock units Prohemerobiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prohemerobiidae and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Prohemerobiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
922 taxa- Heterophlebia buckmani8 sites
- Liadoblattina blakei6 sites
- Necrotaulius parvulus6 sites
- Panorpidium minima6 sites
- Heterothemis brodiei5 sites
- Panorpidium geinitzi5 sites
- Panorpidium media5 sites
- Eoptychoptera simplex4 sites
- Parhemerobius dilatatus4 sites
- Prohemerobius prodromus4 sites
- Archegocimicidae3 sites
- Archijassus heeri3 sites
- Blattula langfeldti3 sites
- Dorniella pulchra3 sites
- Mesobittacus minutus3 sites
- Neorthophlebia maculipennis3 sites
- Prosynactus gracilis3 sites
- Prosynactus scissus3 sites
- Rasnitsyneura septemvirgatus3 sites
- Actinophlebia2 sites
- Actinophlebia intermixta2 sites
- Amblycephalonius tenuistriatus2 sites
- Amphoxyne minuta2 sites
- Archibio mycetophilinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Prohemerobiidae, 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
19 references- Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias17
- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV7
- Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil6
- Upper Liassic neuropterans (Insecta) from Lower Saxony, Germany4
- Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland)3
- The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK2
- Mesozoic Neuroptera and Raphidioptera (Insecta) in Britain2
- Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England1
- Two new lacewings (Neuroptera) from the Upper Jurassic locality Shar-Teg (Mongolia)1
- Novye setchatokrylye (Insecta: Neuroptera) iz mezozoya Mongolii1
- Novye setchatokrylye (Neuroptera) iz verkhnego Mela Azii1
- Neuroptera from the Jurassic of eastern Asia1
Each of the 53 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. 7 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 Prohemerobius Handlirsch, 1906
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Prohemerobiidae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPsychopsoidea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906