Eriosomatinae

Woolly aphids are sap-sucking insects that produce a filamentous waxy white covering which resembles cotton or wool. The adults are winged and move to new locations where they lay egg masses. The nymphs often form large cottony masses on twigs, for protection from predators.

Eriosomatinae

SKsiddhartthan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 42 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 52 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 31 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–3.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83.6 Mya7.246 Mya87 Mya4 Mya

52 occurrences of Eriosomatinae 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

52 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

5 formations

Bouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°E

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The named rock units Eriosomatinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eriosomatinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eriosomatinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Eriosomatinae, 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

21 references

Each of the 52 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. 9 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 Eriosomatinae

Credit
SKsiddhartthan
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eriosomatinae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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. (Baker 1920)