Bittacidae

Bittacidae is a family of scorpionflies commonly called hangingflies or hanging scorpionflies.

Bittacidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 209 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 122 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 122 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 39 of 122 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 122 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 29 of 122 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 122 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 122 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 122 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 122 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 122 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 122 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–221 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences221–214 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences214–206 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences206–199 Mya — about 3 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–184 Mya — about 11 occurrences184–176 Mya — about 24 occurrences176–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–161 Mya — about 8 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 15 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 11 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 3 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 8 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–34 Mya — about 19 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237 Mya27.3 Mya244 Mya19 Mya

122 occurrences of Bittacidae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

122 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

27 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WSagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°ELilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WWhitby Mudstone — 52.01°N, 1.99°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°ELushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°ESulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WEvacuation Creek — 39.89°N, 109.17°WTugnuy — 51.22°N, 108.12°EOsinovo — 53.55°N, 87.25°EMaíz Gordo — 24.35°S, 64.98°WYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EGreen River — 40.07°N, 108.24°WTuodian — 25.05°N, 101.77°E

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The named rock units Bittacidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bittacidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Bittacidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

3,985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Bittacidae, 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

51 references

Each of the 122 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. 39 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 Bittacidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Bittacidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906