Coenagrionoidea

Coenagrionoidea is a superfamily of damselflies comprising the families Coenagrionidae, Isostictidae and Platycnemididae. It is the largest superfamily of damselflies, containing more than half of all recognised species and occurring on every continent except Antarctica.

Coenagrionoidea

J.M.Garg · CC BY 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
CoenagrionidaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Odonata
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 210 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 56 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 56 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 56 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 56 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 14 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–8.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.1–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences113.2 Mya1.4 Mya122 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Coenagrionoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

56 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°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WBautista — 33.80°N, 116.89°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WMaíz Gordo — 24.27°S, 64.42°W

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The named rock units Coenagrionoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coenagrionoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Coenagrionoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,707 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Coenagrionoidea, 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

38 references

Each of the 56 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. 26 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 Coenagrionoidea

Credit
J.M.Garg
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coenagrionoidea 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

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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 itCoenagrionida through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirby 1890