Limnephilidae

Limnephilidae is a family of caddisflies with about 100 genera and almost 900 described species. They belong to the main lineage of case-constructing caddisflies, the Integripalpia or tube-case caddisflies. The Limnephilidae is one of the most species-rich Trichoptera families of northern temperate regions, but only a few are known from tropical areas and the Southern Hemisphere. For this reason they are often known as northern caddisflies.

Limnephilidae

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region · Public Domain · 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
LimnephiloideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 68 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 68 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 68 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 68 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 68 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 68 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences113.2 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

68 occurrences of Limnephilidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

68 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

13 formations

Kap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 42.58°N, 109.94°WGreen River — 42.11°N, 109.05°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.61°N, 117.43°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WIndusial Limestone — 46.28°N, 3.50°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.12°N, 101.65°EClarkia — 47.06°N, 116.33°WSebechleby — 48.16°N, 18.99°ESkarðsströnd–Mókollsdalur — 65.51°N, 21.53°WTremembé — 22.95°S, 45.54°WKhutsin — 45.87°N, 137.60°ERenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°E

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The named rock units Limnephilidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limnephilidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Limnephilidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Limnephilidae, 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

28 references

Each of the 68 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. 16 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 Limnephilidae

Credit
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Limnephilidae 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 itLimnephiloidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kolenati 1848