Aphidomorpha

Aphidomorpha is an infraorder within the insect order Sternorrhyncha which includes the aphids and their allies in the superfamilies Adelgoidea, Phylloxeroidea and Aphidoidea. This group also includes numerous fossil taxa of uncertain placement, such as these other superfamilies Triassoaphidoidea, Genaphidoidea, Palaeoaphidoidea, and Tajmyraphidoidea.

Aphidomorpha

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 279 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 607 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 607 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 607 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 607 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 607 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 607 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 607 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 234 of 607 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 75 of 607 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 607 occurrencesEocene — about 223 of 607 occurrencesOligocene — about 9 of 607 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 607 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 607 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 607 occurrences296–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–237 Mya — about 4 occurrences237–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–217 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences217–207 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences207–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–148 Mya — about 5 occurrences148–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–128 Mya — about 3 occurrences128–118 Mya — about 95 occurrences118–108 Mya — about 132 occurrences108–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–89 Mya — about 12 occurrences89–79 Mya — about 35 occurrences79–69 Mya — about 23 occurrences69–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–49 Mya — about 28 occurrences49–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–30 Mya — about 196 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–9.9 Mya — about 38 occurrences9.9–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences283.3 Mya3.6 Mya296 Mya0 Mya

607 occurrences of Aphidomorpha on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

607 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

43 formations

Zaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EKheta — 70.93°N, 98.64°EKheta — 72.03°N, 101.33°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.96°EFur — 56.81°N, 9.18°EFur — 56.95°N, 8.88°EFur — 56.76°N, 9.11°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.82°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.67°EHotont — 47.37°N, 102.39°EOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EChickaloon — 61.74°N, 148.95°WYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EBegichev — 71.92°N, 102.16°EBegichev — 72.18°N, 102.89°ETsagaantsav — 44.52°N, 109.45°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.77°EBattle — 49.24°N, 105.21°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°W

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The named rock units Aphidomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 232 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphidomorpha and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

5,626 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 154 sites for Aphidomorpha, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

133 references

Each of the 607 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. 121 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

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Picture of Aphidomorpha

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Anders L. Damgaard - www.amber-inclusions.dk - Baltic-amber-beetle
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No 3D scan of Aphidomorpha 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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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAphidiformes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bekker-Migdisova and Aizenberg 1962