Eocicada microcephala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EocicadaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Eocicada microcephala on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
7 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Eocicada microcephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eocicada microcephala and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Eocicada microcephala and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Cymatophlebia longialata4 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica4 sites
- Protolindenia antiqua4 sites
- Aeschnogomphus buchi3 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia3 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri3 sites
- Osmylites excelsa3 sites
- Stenophlebia amphitrite3 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei3 sites
- Urogomphus giganteus3 sites
- Actea sphinx2 sites
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius2 sites
- Archaeogracilidens macer2 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis2 sites
- Chresmoda obscura2 sites
- Cymatophlebia kuempeli2 sites
- Cymatophlebia pumilio2 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia2 sites
- Elcana lithophila2 sites
- Euphaeopsis multinervis2 sites
- Gigantotermes excelsus2 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus2 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila2 sites
- Mesephemera procera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eocicada microcephala, 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- Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany and their phylogenetic significance4
- Jurassic insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology1
- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV1
- Die Insectenwelt des lithographischen Scheifers in Bayern1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Eocicada microcephala was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eocicada microcephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itEocicada through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oppenheim 1888