Megaloptera

Piratisca is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Edward Meyrick in 1902. Both species in this genus are known from New Guinea.

Megaloptera

Juan A. Malo de Molina · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
alderflyPBDB
Sits inside
EidoneuropteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 49 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 49 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 49 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 49 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 49 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 49 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 49 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 49 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 49 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–162 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 15 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences205.7 Mya129 ka232 Mya0 Mya

49 occurrences of Megaloptera 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

49 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

14 formations

Protopivka — 49.18°N, 37.05°EJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WLaramie — 40.45°N, 104.62°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ERedbank Plains — 27.60°S, 152.83°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGidarinskaya — 52.15°N, 120.71°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°E

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The named rock units Megaloptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megaloptera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Megaloptera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,417 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Megaloptera, 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

31 references

Each of the 49 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. 19 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 Megaloptera

Credit
Juan A. Malo de Molina
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Megaloptera 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 itEidoneuroptera through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latreille 1802)