Tettigonia viridissima

Tettigonia viridissima, the great green bush-cricket, is a large species of bush-cricket belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae.

Tettigonia viridissima

Didier Descouens · 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
TettigoniaPBDB
Diet
folivore, herbivorePBDB, for Tettigonioidea
Life habit
arboreal, gregariousPBDB, for Tettigonioidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Tettigonioidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Tettigonioidea
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Tettigonioidea

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya8.725 Mya23.5 Mya4.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Tettigonia viridissima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

3 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.

Tettigonia viridissima and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tettigonia viridissima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tettigonia viridissima, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tettigonia viridissima

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tettigonia viridissima 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 itTettigonia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)