Blattellidae

Ectobiidae is a family of the order Blattodea (cockroaches). This family contains many of the smaller common household pest cockroaches, among others. They are sometimes called wood cockroaches. A few notable species include:European native cockroaches – genera including Ectobius, Capraiellus, Phyllodromica and Planuncus Blattella asahinai: Asian cockroach Blattella germanica: German cockroach Cariblatta lutea: Small yellow cockroach Supella longipalpa: Brown-banded cockroach Parcoblatta spp. including the: Parcoblatta fulvescens: Fulvous wood cockroach Parcoblatta pennsylvanica: Pennsylvania wood cockroach Parcoblatta virginica: Virginia wood cockroach

Blattellidae

Uncredited · Attribution · 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
OrkrasomeriaPBDB
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.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEocene — about 26 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 19 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Blattellidae 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

36 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

3 formations

Eifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°W

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The named rock units Blattellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Blattellidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Blattellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Blattellidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 36 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. 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 Blattellidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Blattellidae 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 itOrkrasomeria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Karny 1908)