Phasmatodea

Phasmatodea

Vengolis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
stick insectPBDB
Sits inside
HolophasmatodeaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 105 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 105 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 105 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 105 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 105 occurrencesEocene — about 81 of 105 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 105 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 105 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–135 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 13 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 76 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence154.8 Mya5.333 Mya169 Mya0 Mya

105 occurrences of Phasmatodea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

105 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

8 formations

Clarno — 44.92°N, 120.43°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ECrato — 7.12°S, 39.70°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WOnyx Marble — 35.10°N, 112.59°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°E

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The named rock units Phasmatodea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 93 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phasmatodea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Phasmatodea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Phasmatodea, 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 105 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 Phasmatodea

Credit
Vengolis
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHolophasmatodea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacobson and Bianchi 1902