Xyelidae

The Xyelidae are a comparatively species-poor family of sawflies, comprising about 80 extant species in five genera worldwide, and is the only family in the superfamily Xyeloidea. The fossil record of the family is extensive, comprising more than 120 species and including the oldest fossil Hymenoptera species dating back to the Triassic, between 245 and 208 million years ago. Xyelidae are sister to all other contemporary lineages of Hymenoptera and have many ancestral morphological features.

Xyelidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
sawflyPBDB
Sits inside
XyeloideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 216 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 40 of 146 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 146 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 146 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 146 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 30 of 146 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 37 of 146 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 146 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 146 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 146 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 146 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 30 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 17 occurrences230–223 Mya — about 3 occurrences223–215 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences215–207 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences191–183 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences183–176 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 11 occurrences160–152 Mya — about 18 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 8 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 21 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 15 occurrences97–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences237 Mya20.45 Mya246 Mya11 Mya

146 occurrences of Xyelidae on record. 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

21 formations

Madygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.00°N, 70.20°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.54°N, 117.73°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EYixian — 42.08°N, 116.56°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EMomonoki — 34.18°N, 131.15°EMomonoki — 34.19°N, 131.17°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EIchetuy — 50.64°N, 105.43°EIchetuy — 51.72°N, 108.28°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EGreen River — 41.79°N, 110.74°WAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EByankino — 50.76°N, 115.66°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EMount Crosby — 27.55°S, 152.78°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°E

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The named rock units Xyelidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

3,322 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Xyelidae, 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

44 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. 32 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 Xyelidae

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

No 3D scan of Xyelidae 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 itXyeloidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newman 1834