Osmylidae

Osmylidae are a small family of winged insects of the net-winged insect order Neuroptera. The osmylids, also called lance lacewings, stream lacewings or giant lacewings, are found all over the world except North and Central America. There are around 225 extant species.

Osmylidae

Donald Hobern from Canberra, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · 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
lance lacewingPBDB
Sits inside
OsmyloideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 180 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 98 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 98 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 98 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 34 of 98 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 98 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 98 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 98 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 98 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 98 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 6 occurrences179–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 5 occurrences166–159 Mya — about 15 occurrences159–153 Mya — about 16 occurrences153–146 Mya — about 11 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 3 occurrences139–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–113 Mya — about 6 occurrences107–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence192.9 Mya12.8 Mya205 Mya8 Mya

98 occurrences of Osmylidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

98 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

20 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°ESagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°ERedbank Plains — 27.66°S, 152.88°ERedbank Plains — 27.60°S, 152.83°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WSiyanovskaya — 45.96°N, 133.77°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WZhargalant — 48.50°N, 92.80°EUkurei — 52.31°N, 117.04°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°W

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The named rock units Osmylidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osmylidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Osmylidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

4,244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Osmylidae, 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

50 references

Each of the 98 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. 38 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 Osmylidae

Credit
Donald Hobern from Canberra, Australia
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Osmylidae 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 itOsmyloidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815