Susumanioidea

Susumaniidae is an extinct family of Phasmatodea, known from the Middle Jurassic to Eocene. They lie outside the modern crown group of Phasmatodea. Members of the group typically possess large, fully developed wings.

Susumanioidea

S. Fernandez · CC BY 2.5 · 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
Sits inside
HolophasmatodeaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 45 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 45 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 45 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 45 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 45 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 8 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence170.9 Mya56 Mya177 Mya46 Mya

45 occurrences of Susumanioidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

45 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

15 formations

Zaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EYixian — 41.75°N, 120.80°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EPaskapoo — 52.33°N, 113.74°WArkagala — 63.25°N, 146.74°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WRedmond — 54.69°N, 66.75°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WArgun — 51.71°N, 113.39°EOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.39°N, 101.84°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.42°WYanan — 38.32°N, 109.85°E

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The named rock units Susumanioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Susumanioidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Susumanioidea, 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

19 references

Each of the 45 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. 7 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 Susumanioidea

Credit
S. Fernandez
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Susumanioidea 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.

The description on this site

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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 itHolophasmatodea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorochov 1988