Aphelocheirus

Aphelocheirus is a genus of true bugs, the only genus belonging to the family Aphelocheiridae.

Aphelocheirus

Michael Raupac, Lars Hendrich, Stefan M. Küchler, Fabian Deister, Jerome Moriniere, Martin M. Gossner · CC BY 4.0 · 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
AphelocheiridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences48.07 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

6 occurrences of Aphelocheirus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

6 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

Borna — 51.13°N, 12.17°EPalana — 27.87°N, 72.87°E

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The named rock units Aphelocheirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphelocheirus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Aphelocheirus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aphelocheirus, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 content2

Picture of Aphelocheirus

Credit
Michael Raupac, Lars Hendrich, Stefan M. Küchler, Fabian Deister, Jerome Moriniere, Martin M. Gossner
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAphelocheiridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westwood 1833