Phryganeidae

Phryganeidae is a family of giant caddisflies in the order Trichoptera. There are at least 80 described species in Phryganeidae.

Phryganeidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
large caddisflyPBDB
Sits inside
PhryganeoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 75 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 75 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 75 occurrencesEocene — about 31 of 75 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 75 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 75 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 27 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.3–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences121.4 Mya129 ka128 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Phryganeidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

75 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

19 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.61°N, 117.43°WLatah — 46.74°N, 116.27°WDoronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°EClarkia — 47.06°N, 116.33°WAtanikerluk — 70.06°N, 52.22°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EDarmakan — 49.42°N, 130.07°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WDon — 43.69°N, 79.36°WBukachacha — 52.99°N, 116.92°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.39°N, 101.84°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.11°N, 14.85°E

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The named rock units Phryganeidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phryganeidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Phryganeidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,743 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Phryganeidae, 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

39 references

Each of the 75 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. 27 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 Phryganeidae

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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.

The description on this site

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

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

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