Aphrophora

Aphrophora is a genus of spittlebugs in the family Aphrophoridae. There are at least 80 described species in Aphrophora.

Aphrophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphrophoriniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 33 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences59.24 Mya12.8 Mya63 Mya11 Mya

33 occurrences of Aphrophora on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

33 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

7 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WSivik — 41.62°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Aphrophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphrophora and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Aphrophora and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Aphrophora, 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

14 references

Each of the 33 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. 2 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 Aphrophora

Credit
This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphrophora 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 itAphrophorini through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germar 1821