Prophalangopsidae

The family Prophalangopsidae are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera. They are the only extant members of the superfamily Hagloidea. There is only one extant genus in North America, where they are known as grigs, four genera in Asia, and many extinct genera.

Prophalangopsidae

Kevinjudge · CC BY-SA 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
Also called
hump-winged cricketPBDB
Sits inside
HagloideaPBDB
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 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 171 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 24 of 171 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 79 of 171 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 52 of 171 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 171 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 171 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 171 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 4 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 4 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 9 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 31 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 29 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 19 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 14 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 4 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 13 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 17 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 10 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192.9 Mya66 Mya204 Mya53 Mya

171 occurrences of Prophalangopsidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

171 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

34 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.95°N, 118.89°EYixian — 41.21°N, 119.25°EYixian — 41.26°N, 119.05°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 40.26°N, 119.06°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°EHaifanggou — 41.47°N, 120.75°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WWeald Clay — 51.14°N, 0.33°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WCheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EBadaowan — 45.60°N, 84.90°EBadaowan — 43.65°N, 87.15°ESulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EShahai — 41.25°N, 120.03°ESinuiju — 40.08°N, 124.42°ENiubao — 32.84°N, 91.41°EPuti Siltstone — 37.43°S, 174.74°EUda — 52.37°N, 110.26°ETalynzhan — 51.63°N, 133.30°ESaldam — 54.17°N, 100.31°EFengjiashan — 33.85°N, 109.90°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WApsat — 57.04°N, 118.00°E

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The named rock units Prophalangopsidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prophalangopsidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Prophalangopsidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,927 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Prophalangopsidae, 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

59 references

Each of the 171 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. 47 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 Prophalangopsidae

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Kevinjudge
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prophalangopsidae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kirby 1906)