Anthocoridae

Anthocoridae is a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs. Worldwide there are 500 to 600 species.

Anthocoridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
minute pirate bugPBDB
Sits inside
CimicoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence113.2 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Anthocoridae on record, most of them in the Early 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

9 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

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°E

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The named rock units Anthocoridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthocoridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Anthocoridae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anthocoridae, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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. 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 Anthocoridae

Credit
Photo by Jack Dykinga (uploaded by -- gian_d 22:03, 15 March 2008 (UTC))
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthocoridae 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 itCimicoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fieber 1837