Lestoidea

Lestoidea is a superfamily of damselflies comprising the families Hemiphlebiidae, Lestidae, Perilestidae and Synlestidae. Members occur on every continent except Antarctica, with greatest diversity in tropical and temperate regions.

Lestoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LestodeaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Odonata
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata

Time the record covers

At least 123 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 70 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 70 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 8 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences125.77 Mya2.58 Mya135 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Lestoidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

70 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

22 formations

Campagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.59°WDoronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ECalcàries de Tàrrega — 41.64°N, 1.32°EBembridge Marls — 50.74°N, 1.36°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WWanghudun — 30.76°N, 116.55°ENongshan — 25.29°N, 114.50°EHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WVentana — 41.10°S, 70.82°WShouchang — 29.36°N, 119.14°EWiesbaden — 49.97°N, 8.30°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.99°E

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The named rock units Lestoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lestoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lestoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Lestoidea, 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

42 references

Each of the 70 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. 30 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 Lestoidea

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TekuraDF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lestoidea 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.

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 itLestodea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fraser 1957