Cercopidae

Cercopidae

Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
froghopperPBDB
Sits inside
CercopoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesEocene — about 38 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 23 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 73 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 24 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences139.1 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Cercopidae 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

73 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

12 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WAllenby — 49.37°N, 120.59°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WPing Chau — 22.55°N, 114.42°EPing Chau — 22.55°N, 114.43°Einterbasaltic plant-beds — 56.34°N, 6.23°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ETremembé — 21.89°S, 46.92°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WHachiya — 35.48°N, 137.11°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Cercopidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cercopidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cercopidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,962 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Cercopidae, 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

27 references

Each of the 73 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. 15 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 Cercopidae

Credit
Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cercopidae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCercopoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815