Termitinae

Termitinae is a diverse subfamily of higher termites represented by 23 genera and 104 species. Similarly to Amitermitinae, the group feeds on a number of diverse substrates; wood, soil, and leaf litter. Some are inquilines of other termite species, such as members of the genus Inquilinitermes. The group has a wide distribution, found from the Afrotropical, Australasian, Neotropical to the Oceania and Indomalayan realms.

Termitinae

iNaturalist Australia user: hntro · 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
Sits inside
TermitidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Termitinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

24 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

4 formations

Randeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°E

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The named rock units Termitinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Termitinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Termitinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

850 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Termitinae, 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

10 references

Each of the 24 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. 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 Termitinae

Credit
iNaturalist Australia user: hntro
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Termitinae 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

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 itTermitidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802