Hemerobioidea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeoneuropteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 260 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
254 occurrences of Hemerobioidea 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
254 occurrences- Permianunder 1%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassic8%
- Early Cretaceous27%
- Late Cretaceous9%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eocene37%
- Oligocene3%
- Miocene12%
- Plioceneunder 1%
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
38 formations
- Crato Formation · Santana Group24
- Florissant Formation15
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group12
- Karabastau Formation12
- Fur Formation12
- Zaza Formation11
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The named rock units Hemerobioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemerobioidea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hemerobioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
4,975 taxa- Chrysopa martynovae10 sites
- Coleoptera7 sites
- Araneae6 sites
- Archirhyphus asiaticus6 sites
- Hemerobiidae6 sites
- Protoscelis jurassica6 sites
- Archaea paradoxa5 sites
- Bradoponera meieri5 sites
- Distenorrhinus (Distenorrhinus) pallidirostris5 sites
- Ellinaphidinae5 sites
- Formicidae5 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi5 sites
- Liassothrips crassipes5 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea5 sites
- Paramesopsocus adibi5 sites
- Protoscelis longicornis5 sites
- Tetraponera simplex5 sites
- Zygoptera5 sites
- Ampliceps furcitibia4 sites
- Berothidae4 sites
- Caudaphis angustivola4 sites
- Charonoscapha ovata4 sites
- Cratoelcana zessini4 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Hemerobioidea, 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
109 references- Miocene insects (Neuroptera) from the northern Caucasus and Sikhote-Alin19
- Mesozoic chrysopid-like Planipennia: a phylogenetic approach (Insecta: Neuroptera)15
- A diverse new assemblage of green lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America13
- Fossil Neuroptera of the Lower Cretaceous of Baisa, east Siberia. Part 3. Chrysopidae (Insecta)10
- Fossil Insects from the Bembridge Marls, Palaeogene of the Isle of Wight, Southern England7
- A revision of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) from the late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado, with description of new species6
- The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida: Megaloptera, Neuroptera)6
- New representatives of the Neuropterans (Neuroptera) from the Jurassic of the Karatau region6
- New lacewings from the Insect Bed (late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae, Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae)5
- A new assemblage of Early Cretaceous green lacewings (Chrysopidae: Neuroptera) from Transbaikalia5
- Neurópteros (Insecta, Planipennia) da Formação Santana (Cretáceo Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, nordeste do Brasil. I - Família Chrysopidae5
- Nothochrysinae (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark, with description of a new genus4
Each of the 254 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. 97 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 Hemerobioidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Hemerobioidea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802