Afristenus orapensis
No picture of Afristenus orapensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Afristenus orapensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AfristenusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Afristenus orapensis on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late 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.
Afristenus orapensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Afristenus orapensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Afrapia globularis1 site
- Afrapia robusta1 site
- Afrapia variicornis1 site
- Afromyrma petrosa1 site
- Afropone oculata1 site
- Afropone orapa1 site
- Bibiodes1 site
- Bibionidae1 site
- Botsvania cretacea1 site
- Ceafornotensis archratiras1 site
- Chalscelio orapa1 site
- Cretafrica orapensis1 site
- Cretembolemus orapensis1 site
- Curculionoidea1 site
- Curiosivespa orapa1 site
- Empis orapaensis1 site
- Harpalus mckayi1 site
- Harpalus mnguni1 site
- Harpalus nkqwili1 site
- Harpalus peteni1 site
- Helius botswanensis1 site
- Hemithrips1 site
- Labenopimpla orapa1 site
- Maimetshorapia africana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Afristenus orapensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Afristenus orapensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Afristenus orapensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Afristenus orapensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAfristenus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mnguni et al. 2022