Glossata

Glossata is a suborder of the Lepidoptera, containing all members that have a coilable proboscis; i.e., it includes all butterflies and the vast majority of moth species. The only non-Glossatan moths are in the suborders Aglossata, Heterobathmiina, and Zeugloptera.

Glossata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AngiospermivoraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 273 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 273 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 273 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 273 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 273 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 273 occurrencesEocene — about 137 of 273 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 273 occurrencesMiocene — about 50 of 273 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 273 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 273 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 7 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 15 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 93 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 45 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 20 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 23 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

273 occurrences of Glossata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

273 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

31 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ETremembé — 23.01°S, 45.58°WTremembé — 22.95°S, 45.54°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.12°N, 14.77°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.44°N, 14.63°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMonro Conglomerate — 43.51°S, 171.64°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EUpper Laetolil Beds — 3.21°S, 35.21°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EArnstadt — 52.31°N, 10.72°ELias Alpha-1 — 52.31°N, 10.72°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°E

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The named rock units Glossata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 182 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Glossata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Glossata, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

120 references

Each of the 273 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. 108 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 Glossata

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

No 3D scan of Glossata 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.

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 itAngiospermivora through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fabricius 1775)