Thripidae

The Thripidae are the most speciose family of thrips, with over 290 genera representing just over two thousand species. They can be distinguished from other thrips by a saw-like ovipositor curving downwards, narrow wings with two veins, and antennae of six to ten antennomeres with stiletto-like forked sense cones on antennal segments III and IV.

Thripidae

Original work: H T Fernald Derivative work: Dysmorodrepanis ( talk ) · Public Domain · 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
TerebrantiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 146 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 146 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEocene — about 114 of 146 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 146 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 146 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 33 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 82 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences121.4 Mya18.5 Mya128 Mya14 Mya

146 occurrences of Thripidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

146 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

6 formations

Barstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WLas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°W

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The named rock units Thripidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 117 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thripidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Thripidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,723 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Thripidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

28 references

Each of the 146 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. 16 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 Thripidae

Credit
Original work: H T Fernald Derivative work: Dysmorodrepanis ( talk )
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thripidae 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 itTerebrantia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stevens 1829