Aeschnidium heishankowensis
No picture of Aeschnidium heishankowensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Aeschnidium heishankowensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aeschnidium heishankowensis 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group3
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The named rock units Aeschnidium heishankowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aeschnidium heishankowensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Aeschnidium heishankowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Alleremonomus xingi1 site
- Anomoscytina anomala1 site
- Baissoptera liaoningensis1 site
- Choromyrmeleon othneius1 site
- Chrysogomphus beipiaoensis1 site
- Eopangonius pletus1 site
- Florinemestrius pulcherrimus1 site
- Guocordulia boreala1 site
- Hagiphasma paradoxa1 site
- Ilerdocossus beipiaoensis1 site
- Ilerdocossus exiguus1 site
- Ilerdocossus hui1 site
- Kalligramma liaoningense1 site
- Lapicixius decorus1 site
- Lasiosmylus newi1 site
- Lepteremochaetus lithoecius1 site
- Liaonemobius tanae1 site
- Liogomphus yixianensis1 site
- Megabittacus beipiaoensis1 site
- Megabittacus colosseus1 site
- Mesascalaphus yangi1 site
- Mesoraphidia longistigmosa1 site
- Mesoraphidia polyphlebia1 site
- Mesoraphidia shangyuanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aeschnidium heishankowensis, 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
3 referencesEach 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. 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
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No picture of Aeschnidium heishankowensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Aeschnidium heishankowensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hong 1965