Blattella
Blattella is a genus of cosmopolitan and wild cockroaches in the family Ectobiidae.
David Monniaux · CC BY-SA 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- Sits inside
- BlattelliniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 93 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.
16 occurrences of Blattella 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
16 occurrences- Late Cretaceous6%
- Eocene75%
- Holocene19%
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.
Blattella and its relatives
EoceneWhere Blattella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
603 taxa- Archaeotinodes exarata2 sites
- Blattodea2 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata2 sites
- Ectobius balticus2 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei2 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi2 sites
- Holocentropus affinis2 sites
- Ischnoptera gedanensis2 sites
- Lype sericea2 sites
- Nyctibora succinica2 sites
- Nyctiophylax repandus2 sites
- Nyctiophylax varians2 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea2 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea2 sites
- Palaeoascia uniappendiculata2 sites
- Phyllodromia furcifera2 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni2 sites
- Plectrocnemia barbata2 sites
- Plectrocnemia lata2 sites
- Polyphaga fossilis2 sites
- Solva nana2 sites
- Temnopteryx klebsi2 sites
- Tipula media2 sites
- Wormaldia aequalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Blattella, 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- On a collection of Blattidae preserved in amber, from Prussia10
- The British Museum collection of Blattidae enclosed in amber5
- Mesozoic relative of the common synanthropic German cockroach (Blattodea)1
Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Blattella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- David Monniaux
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Blattella 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Blattella”
- 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 itBlattellini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Caudell 1903