Homoiopteridae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeodictyopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 320 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 321.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
31 occurrences of Homoiopteridae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
31 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
15 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group11
- Flöz Zweibänke Formation2
- Kata Formation2
- Farrington Formation2
- Karvina Formation1
- Žacléř Formation1
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The named rock units Homoiopteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Homoiopteridae and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Homoiopteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
341 taxa- Mazonopterum wolfforum4 sites
- Homoioptera kortumi3 sites
- Paoliidae3 sites
- Pleurojulus biornatus3 sites
- Adiphlebia lacoana2 sites
- Anglopterum magnificum2 sites
- Architarbus rotundatus2 sites
- Belinurus trilobitoides2 sites
- Blattodea2 sites
- Discotarbus deplanatus2 sites
- Eucaenus ovalis2 sites
- Liomesaspis laevis2 sites
- Lithoneura mirifica2 sites
- Palaeocampa anthrax2 sites
- Palaeocaris typus2 sites
- Scepasma gigas2 sites
- Syntonoptera schucherti2 sites
- ? Platysoma sp.1 site
- Adeloblatta sellardsi1 site
- Adolarryia bairdi1 site
- Alanympha richardsoni1 site
- Amarixys gracilis1 site
- Amarixys stellaris1 site
- Ametretus laevis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Homoiopteridae, 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
17 references- New Homoiopteridae (Insecta: Paleodictyoptera) with wing articulation from Upper Carboniferous strata of Mazon Creek, Illinois7
- New homoiopterids from the Late Carboniferous of England (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera)3
- Insekten-funde aus dem Westfalium D (Ober-Karbon) des Piesberges bei Osnabrück (Deutschland). Teil 1: Palaeoptera3
- New Paleozoic insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois3
- Ein neues Riesen-Insekt aus dem Ober-Karbon des Saarlandes (Palaeodictyoptera: Homoiopteridae)2
- New Palaeodictyoptera from the USSR2
- New palaeodictyopterans from the Late Carboniferous of the UK (Insecta: Palaeodictyopterida)1
- New non-holometabolous insects from the Pennsylvanian of the Avion locality in Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: 'Exopterygota')1
- Upper Carboniferous insects from the Pottsville Formation of northern Alabama (Insecta: Ephemeropterida, Palaeodictyopterida, Odonatoptera)1
- A new genus and species of Homoiopteridae from the Upper Carboniferous of the Intra-Sudetic basin, Czech Republic (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera)1
- Age zonation of the early Pennsylvanian using fossil insects1
- Neue Insekten aus den Vorhalle-Schichten (oberes Namurium B) von Hagen-Vorhalle1
Each of the 31 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. 5 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 Homoiopteridae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Unknown author Unknown author
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Homoiopteridae 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 itPalaeodictyoptera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906