Trogiomorpha

Trogiomorpha is one of the three major suborders of barklice, booklice, and parasitic lice in the order Psocodea, alongside Troctomorpha and Psocomorpha. There are about eight families and more than 430 described species in Trogiomorpha. Trogiomorpha is widely agreed to be the earliest diverging of the three suborders, and retains the most primitive characteristics.

Trogiomorpha

Arp · 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
PsocodeaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 33 of 94 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 94 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 94 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 94 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 94 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 94 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 94 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 94 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 9 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 16 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 21 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

94 occurrences of Trogiomorpha on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

94 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

10 formations

Escucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 41.03°N, 0.56°WEscucha — 40.25°N, 0.61°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ELas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WKabaw — 21.68°N, 94.08°EWapiti — 55.06°N, 119.11°WDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°E

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The named rock units Trogiomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trogiomorpha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Trogiomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,077 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Trogiomorpha, 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

49 references

Each of the 94 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. 37 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 Trogiomorpha

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Arp
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trogiomorpha 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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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 itPsocodea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roesler 1940