Agrypnia

Agrypnia is a genus of giant caddisflies in the family Phryganeidae. There are about 19 described species in Agrypnia.

Agrypnia

Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · 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
PhryganeidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.8 Mya129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Agrypnia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

3 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

2 formations

Kap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WDon — 43.69°N, 79.36°W

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The named rock units Agrypnia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Agrypnia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Agrypnia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Agrypnia, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Agrypnia

Credit
Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agrypnia 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.

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What may have been alongside itPhryganeidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Curtis 1835)