Eriosoma

Uncredited · 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
- EriosomatiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
3 occurrences of Eriosoma on record. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group1
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The named rock units Eriosoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
358 taxa- Cicadellidae2 sites
- Formicidae2 sites
- Formicinae2 sites
- Ichneumonidae2 sites
- Lygaeidae2 sites
- Staphylinidae2 sites
- Acalyptratae1 site
- Achetomorpha irregularis1 site
- Acnemia simplex1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Aedes1 site
- Aeolothrips jarzembowskii1 site
- Aeshnidae1 site
- Agabus latissimus1 site
- Aneurhynchus conservatus1 site
- Anglogomphaeschna eocenica1 site
- Ankomwarius brodiei1 site
- Anomala tumulata1 site
- Anthicidae1 site
- Anthidium mortuum1 site
- Anthomyia1 site
- Aphaenogaster archaica1 site
- Aphididae1 site
- Aphidoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eriosoma, 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
3 references- Aphids, true hoppers, jumping plant-lice, scale insects, true bugs and whiteflies (Insecta: Hemiptera) from the Insect Limestone (latest Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK1
- Sur quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott, Sept Montagnes (Prusse rhenane)1
- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts V-VII1
Each of the 3 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 Eriosoma
- 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 Eriosoma 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEriosomatini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Von Heyden 1837