Phryganea labefacta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhryganeaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Phryganea labefacta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Phryganea labefacta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phryganea labefacta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Phryganea labefacta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Bariditae2 sites
- Acalles exhumatus1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Agabus florissantensis1 site
- Alomatia fusca1 site
- Amara powellii1 site
- Andrena percontusa1 site
- Anomalon miocenicum1 site
- Anthonomus debilatus1 site
- Anthonomus evigilatus1 site
- Anthonomus primordius1 site
- Aphaenogaster mayri1 site
- Aphodius aboriginalis1 site
- Aphodius granarioides1 site
- Aphodius inundatus1 site
- Aphodius laminicola1 site
- Aphodius praeemptor1 site
- Archaeochrysa fracta1 site
- Asilus peritulus1 site
- Asilus wickhami1 site
- Ataenius patescens1 site
- Atheta florissantensis1 site
- Baris imperfecta1 site
- Bembidium florissantensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phryganea labefacta, 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
4 references- New and little known insects from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado1
- The Genus Phryganea (Trichoptera) in the Florissant Shales1
- Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado1
- The Tertiary Insects of North America1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Phryganea labefacta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Phryganea labefacta 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhryganea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1890