Blattodea

Searched as Blattoidea. The Paleobiology Database treats Blattodea as the accepted name.

Blattoidea is a superfamily of cockroaches and termites in the order Blattodea. There are about 17 families and more than 4,100 described species in Blattoidea.

Blattodea

Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
DictyopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 316 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 516 of 1629 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 86 of 1629 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1629 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 18 of 1629 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 31 of 1629 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 35 of 1629 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 1629 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 48 of 1629 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 262 of 1629 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 110 of 1629 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 21 of 1629 occurrencesEocene — about 208 of 1629 occurrencesOligocene — about 43 of 1629 occurrencesMiocene — about 205 of 1629 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 1629 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 1629 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 275 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 260 occurrences297–286 Mya — about 45 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 9 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–253 Mya — about 8 occurrences253–242 Mya — about 13 occurrences242–231 Mya — about 19 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 9 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 3 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 15 occurrences198–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–176 Mya — about 21 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 9 occurrences165–154 Mya — about 8 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 42 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 41 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 59 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 129 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 54 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 79 occurrences88–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 24 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 64 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 142 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 51 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 163 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 69 occurrences316.9 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

1,629 occurrences of Blattodea on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1,629 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

210 formations

Ottweiler Stufe — 51.58°N, 11.80°EOttweiler Stufe — 50.68°N, 10.86°EOttweiler Stufe — 51.51°N, 11.88°EOttweiler Stufe — 51.64°N, 11.90°EStellarton — 45.58°N, 62.65°WStellarton — 45.56°N, 62.58°WStellarton — 45.55°N, 62.56°WStellarton — 45.55°N, 62.71°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ECommentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°ECarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 39.97°N, 87.58°WCarbondale — 41.27°N, 88.23°WCarbondale — 40.40°N, 90.80°WCarbondale — 40.05°N, 87.57°WJinju — 36.19°N, 128.63°EJinju — 35.16°N, 128.11°EJinju — 35.08°N, 128.05°EJinju — 35.75°N, 128.37°EJinju — 35.87°N, 128.41°EJinju — 35.22°N, 128.15°EJinju — 36.25°N, 128.63°EGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 39.40°N, 108.21°WGreen River — 39.59°N, 108.07°WGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.02°WGreen River — 39.73°N, 107.98°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°ELlewellyn — 41.31°N, 75.81°WLlewellyn — 40.80°N, 80.47°WLlewellyn — 41.37°N, 75.74°WLlewellyn — 40.63°N, 76.50°WLlewellyn — 40.60°N, 76.39°WAlykaevskaya — 55.13°N, 86.78°EAlykaevskaya — 55.60°N, 86.02°EAlykaevskaya — 55.15°N, 85.84°EAlykaevskaya — 55.47°N, 86.01°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EAllegheny — 41.79°N, 71.36°WAllegheny — 39.25°N, 79.36°WAllegheny — 39.54°N, 79.09°WAllegheny — 38.62°N, 79.34°WAllegheny — 39.55°N, 79.39°WAllegheny — 39.00°N, 79.00°WAllegheny — 39.68°N, 79.79°WAllegheny — 38.30°N, 82.42°WLawrence Shale — 38.97°N, 95.24°WLos Rastros — 29.88°S, 67.77°WLos Rastros — 29.75°S, 67.56°WLos Rastros — 29.83°S, 67.82°WLos Rastros — 29.08°S, 69.11°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°E

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The named rock units Blattodea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 186 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 632 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Blattodea and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Blattodea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

7,012 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 747 sites for Blattodea, and this reads 240 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

473 references

Each of the 1,629 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. 461 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 Blattodea

Credit
Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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