Drepanosiphinae

Drepanosiphinae is a subfamily of aphids in the family Aphididae. There are about 13 genera, 8 of which are extinct, and more than 60 described species in Drepanosiphinae.

Drepanosiphinae

S. Rae from Scotland, UK · CC BY 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
AphididaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 12.5 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 61 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 61 occurrencesEocene — about 58 of 61 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 61 occurrencesMiocene96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 34 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89.8 Mya16.3 Mya96 Mya11 Mya

61 occurrences of Drepanosiphinae 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

61 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

6 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFur — 56.81°N, 9.18°EFur — 56.95°N, 8.88°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.96°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.82°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.67°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°E

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The named rock units Drepanosiphinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Drepanosiphinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Drepanosiphinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Drepanosiphinae, 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

20 references

Each of the 61 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. 8 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 Drepanosiphinae

Credit
S. Rae from Scotland, UK
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Drepanosiphinae 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 itAphididae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Herrich-Schaeffer 1857)