Diplopterinae

Peterwchen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Sits inside
- BlaberidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 94 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
8 occurrences of Diplopterinae 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
8 occurrences- Early Cretaceous13%
- Eocene88%
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
- Green River Formation5
- Tranquille Formation · Kamloops Group1
- Ping Chau Formation1
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The named rock units Diplopterinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diplopterinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diplopterinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
437 taxa- Diploptera vladimir3 sites
- Abelater succineus1 site
- Ablator triguttatus1 site
- Agraylea spathifera1 site
- Allochthonius balticus1 site
- Almolinus ligula1 site
- Amara1 site
- Amelyris (Asymelyris) groehni1 site
- Analetris secundus1 site
- Aneurus (Aneurus) groehni1 site
- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) ambericus1 site
- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) groehni1 site
- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) kerneggeri1 site
- Aphaenogaster groehni1 site
- Aphaenogaster ribbeckei1 site
- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti1 site
- Aphididae1 site
- Apidae1 site
- Archaea paradoxa1 site
- Archaeoluprops groehni1 site
- Archaeonebria inexspectata1 site
- Archepopovia yurii1 site
- Archimetrioxena zherikhini1 site
- Archipseudophasma phoenix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diplopterinae, 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
4 references- Origin of origami cockroach reveals long-lasting (11 Ma) phenotype instability following viviparity5
- New cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattina) from Baltic amber, with the description of a new genus and species: Stegoblatta irmgardgroehni1
- Early Eocene insects from Quilchena, British Columbia, and their paleoclimatic implications1
- Early Tertiary insects from Peng Chau, Hong Kong1
Each of the 8 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 Diplopterinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Peterwchen
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBlaberidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Saussure 1864)