Taeniopterygidae

Taeniopterygidae are a family of stone flies with about 110 described extant species. They are commonly called willowflies or winter stoneflies and have a holarctic distribution. Adults are usually smaller than 15 mm.

Taeniopterygidae

Alex Zelenko · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
winter stoneflyPBDB
Sits inside
NemouroideaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, omnivorePBDB, for Plecoptera
Life habit
volant, solitaryPBDB, for Plecoptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Plecoptera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Plecoptera
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Plecoptera

Time the record covers

At least 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 6 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 26 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 4 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence174.7 Mya3.6 Mya188 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Taeniopterygidae 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

26 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

9 formations

Sulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGlushkovo — 51.86°N, 117.45°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EBakhar — 45.22°N, 99.17°EKhamarkhoburinskaya — 44.78°N, 110.06°EKhaya — 62.16°N, 118.60°E

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The named rock units Taeniopterygidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Taeniopterygidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is 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 Taeniopterygidae

Credit
Alex Zelenko
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taeniopterygidae 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 itNemouroidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klapálek 1905