Blattidae

Blattidae is a cockroach family in the order Blattodea containing several of the most common household cockroaches. Notable species include:Oriental cockroach, Common shining cockroach, Florida woods cockroach, Periplaneta spp: American cockroach, Australian cockroach, Brown cockroach, Smokybrown cockroach, Turkestan cockroach, Botany Bay cockroach

Blattidae

Paul Hirst · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
BlattoidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 44 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 44 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 44 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Blattidae 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

44 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

9 formations

Menat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.02°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EShouchang — 29.73°N, 120.36°EJinju — 35.13°N, 128.10°E

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The named rock units Blattidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Blattidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Blattidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Blattidae, 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

26 references

Each of the 44 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. 14 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 Blattidae

Credit
Paul Hirst
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Blattidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBlattoidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1810