Oniscidea

Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, and from louse, a parasitic insect, although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects. Other common names include slater, sow bug, and wood pig, common names varying widely by region.

Oniscidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsopodaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 38 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka108 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Oniscidea 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

38 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

7 formations

Escucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WLa Quinta — 17.15°N, 92.71°WChira — 5.20°S, 80.63°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°EHiwegi — 0.41°S, 34.19°E

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The named rock units Oniscidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oniscidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Oniscidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Oniscidea, 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

18 references

Each of the 38 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. 6 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 Oniscidea

Credit
Collage: User:Edit-pi (collage), original authors: see source images.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oniscidea 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 itIsopoda through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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