Reticulitermes

Reticulitermes

Uncredited · 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
Sits inside
HeterotermitidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 13 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 30 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33.9 Mya3.6 Mya38.4 Mya1.9 Mya

30 occurrences of Reticulitermes on record. 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

30 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

7 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCreede — 37.84°N, 106.92°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°E

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The named rock units Reticulitermes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Reticulitermes, 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

18 references

Each of the 30 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. 6 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 Reticulitermes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Reticulitermes 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itHeterotermitidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Holmgren 1913)