Psychopsidae

Psychopsidae is a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. They are commonly called silky lacewings.

Psychopsidae

John Tann from Sydney, 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
silky lacewingPBDB
Sits inside
PsychopsoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 185 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 66 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 66 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 66 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 66 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 66 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 66 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 66 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 66 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–217 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences217–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–158 Mya — about 3 occurrences158–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–136 Mya — about 6 occurrences136–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–122 Mya — about 12 occurrences122–114 Mya — about 8 occurrences114–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences205.7 Mya20.45 Mya232 Mya12 Mya

66 occurrences of Psychopsidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

66 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

23 formations

Weald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.95°N, 118.89°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WJiulongshan — 40.91°N, 118.32°EJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EArkagala — 63.25°N, 146.74°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKizi — 45.48°N, 137.21°EGranatovoya — 45.87°N, 137.60°EKhutsin — 45.87°N, 137.60°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EKuwajima — 36.21°N, 136.63°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WSimonovo — 57.97°N, 92.23°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°E

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The named rock units Psychopsidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psychopsidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Psychopsidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Psychopsidae, 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

38 references

Each of the 66 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. 26 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 Psychopsidae

Credit
John Tann from Sydney, Australia
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psychopsidae 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 itPsychopsoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Handlirsch 1906)