Oecanthidae

The Oecanthidae are a recently (2022) restored family of crickets based on the type genus Oecanthus Serville, 1831. They include "tree crickets", "anomalous crickets" and "bush crickets" and can be found in warmer parts of most of the world.

Oecanthidae

Holger Krisp · CC BY 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
Also called
tree cricketPBDB
Sits inside
GrylloideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocene108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–9.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya12.8 Mya108 Mya10 Mya

13 occurrences of Oecanthidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

13 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

5 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EPoole — 50.67°N, 2.09°WThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°W

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The named rock units Oecanthidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oecanthidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Oecanthidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oecanthidae, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Oecanthidae

Credit
Holger Krisp
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oecanthidae 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 itGrylloidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blanchard 1845)