Enicocephalomorpha

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeteropteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 121 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.
21 occurrences of Enicocephalomorpha on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
21 occurrences- Early Cretaceous14%
- Late Cretaceous33%
- Eocene5%
- Miocene43%
- Holocene5%
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
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The named rock units Enicocephalomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Enicocephalomorpha and its relatives
MioceneWhere Enicocephalomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,031 taxa- Caulophilus ashei3 sites
- Aleyrodidae2 sites
- Amnestus electricus2 sites
- Anthonomus (Anthomorphus) cruraluma2 sites
- Archeatelura sturmi2 sites
- Blattulidae2 sites
- Bradysia exoleta2 sites
- Caenocholax brodzinskyi2 sites
- Caenocholax dominicensis2 sites
- Chilicola (Hylaeosoma) gracilis2 sites
- Corynoptera prisca2 sites
- Dryinus grimaldii2 sites
- Electroborus brighti2 sites
- Enicocephalus seniculus2 sites
- Epidapus microspinus2 sites
- Forcipomyia2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)2 sites
- Geratozygops atropos2 sites
- Harpactosphecion sucinum2 sites
- Hirtodrosophila paleothoracis2 sites
- Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) manifesta2 sites
- Milichiella dolichosurstyla2 sites
- Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) dominicanus2 sites
- Paleomastacris ambarinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Enicocephalomorpha, 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
11 references- Amber fossil Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon and Oligo-Miocene of the Dominican Republic, with biogeographic analysis of Enicocephalus9
- Arthropods in Burmese amber3
- A true bug with a true but unique chela in 100 million-year-old amber1
- The first unique-headed bug (Hemiptera, Enicocephalomorpha) from Cretaceous Iberian amber, and the Gondwanan connections of its palaeoentomological fauna1
- A new Aenictopecheidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Insecta: Hemiptera)1
- Allocephalocorinae, a new subfamily of Enicocephalidae, based on Allocephalocoris zhengi gen. et sp. nov., in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Insecta: Hemiptera)1
- A fossil head of an enicocephalomorphan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from England revisited: Identity of the first fossil species of Enicocephalidae from Europe1
- A new enicocephalid bug, Enicocephalinus acragrimaldii gen. nov., sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (Insecta, Heteroptera, Enicocephalidae)1
- Paralienates hyalinus n. gen. and n. sp. (Enicocephalidae: Heteroptera): fossil gnat bug from Dominican amber (lower Oligocene-upper Eocene)1
- Insects in Burmese amber1
- Descriptions of several new species of exotic Hemipterous insects1
Each of the 21 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 Enicocephalomorpha
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Enicocephalomorpha was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHeteroptera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.