Necrotauliidae

Necrotauliidae is an extinct family of Mesozoic amphiesmenopterans. While previously considered a paraphyletic grouping of "basal Trichoptera, basal Lepidoptera, and advanced stem-Amphiesmenoptera", they have recently been considered early diverging caddisflies. Other authors have considered them to be basal amphiesmenopterans.

Necrotauliidae

Yujia Liu,Weiting Zhang,Yunzhi Yao ,Dong Ren · CC BY 4.0 · 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
NecrotrichopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 74 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 74 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 41 of 74 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 74 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 10 of 74 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 74 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous244–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 6 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 3 occurrences198–194 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–181 Mya — about 38 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237 Mya125.77 Mya244 Mya119 Mya

74 occurrences of Necrotauliidae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

74 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

21 formations

Posidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EPosidonia Shale — 49.17°N, 11.39°EPosidonia Shale — 48.63°N, 9.51°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLulworth — 50.65°N, 2.37°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°ECotham — 51.60°N, 2.63°WWhitby Mudstone — 52.01°N, 1.99°WLilstock — 52.03°N, 2.15°WLilstock — 51.19°N, 3.38°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EMakarova — 55.97°N, 92.71°EKalgan — 50.81°N, 119.18°EMadygen — 40.03°N, 70.25°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WDoronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°EJiulongshan — 40.91°N, 118.32°EYixian — 40.97°N, 117.90°EShiti — 24.46°N, 111.50°EUkurei — 52.31°N, 117.04°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.72°N, 2.93°WBeacon Limstone — 50.93°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Necrotauliidae 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.

Necrotauliidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Necrotauliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,469 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Necrotauliidae, 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

24 references

Each of the 74 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. 12 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 Necrotauliidae

Credit
Yujia Liu,Weiting Zhang,Yunzhi Yao ,Dong Ren
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Necrotauliidae 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 itNecrotrichoptera through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906