Psylla

Psylla is the type genus of sap-sucking insects in the family Psyllidae. There are at least 110 described species in Psylla. Species within the genus feed on various host plants.

Psylla

Mick E. Talbot · CC BY 2.0 · 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
PsyllinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesMiocene16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16.5 Mya11.1 Mya

23 occurrences of Psylla on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

23 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.

Psylla and its relatives

Miocene

Where Psylla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Psylla, 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

1 reference

Each of the 23 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Psylla

Credit
Mick E. Talbot
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psylla 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPsyllinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1762