Myrmeleontoidea

Myrmeleontoidea is a neuropteran superfamily in the clade Myrmeleontiformia. The following families are included:

Myrmeleontoidea

Pierre Dalous · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MyrmeleontiformiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 224 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 219 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 219 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 219 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 219 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 22 of 219 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 124 of 219 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 219 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 219 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 219 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 219 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 219 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–149 Mya — about 8 occurrences149–141 Mya — about 12 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 43 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 78 occurrences110–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–94 Mya — about 40 occurrences94–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences237 Mya12.8 Mya244 Mya7 Mya

219 occurrences of Myrmeleontoidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

219 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

26 formations

Crato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EGreen River — 39.61°N, 108.10°WGreen River — 41.79°N, 110.75°WJinju — 35.13°N, 128.10°EOra — 29.99°N, 35.08°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WRedmond — 54.69°N, 66.75°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WIndusial Limestone — 46.26°N, 3.51°EShahai — 41.25°N, 120.03°EAntibes — 56.30°N, 87.76°EArkagala — 63.25°N, 146.74°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°E

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The named rock units Myrmeleontoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myrmeleontoidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Myrmeleontoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,936 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Myrmeleontoidea, 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

92 references

Each of the 219 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. 80 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 Myrmeleontoidea

Credit
Pierre Dalous
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myrmeleontoidea 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.

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 itMyrmeleontiformia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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