Aradidae

Aradidae is a family of true bugs (Heteroptera). Family members are commonly known as flat bugs due to their dorsoventrally flattened bodies. With few exceptions, these cryptic insects are of no economic importance.

Aradidae

Philipp Weigell · CC BY 3.0 · 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
Also called
flat bugPBDB
Sits inside
AradoideaPBDB
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 1 of 104 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 28 of 104 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 104 occurrencesEocene — about 60 of 104 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 104 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 104 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 104 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 104 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 17 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 8 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 39 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence113.2 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

104 occurrences of Aradidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

104 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

8 formations

Messel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EMae Sot — 16.71°N, 98.56°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°E

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The named rock units Aradidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 85 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aradidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aradidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Aradidae, 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

50 references

Each of the 104 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. 38 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 Aradidae

Credit
Philipp Weigell
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aradidae 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 itAradoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brullé 1836