Aphrophora coquandi

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- AphrophoraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Aphrophora coquandi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Aphrophora coquandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aphrophora coquandi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Aphrophora coquandi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Aphanus pulchellus3 sites
- Plecia3 sites
- Aphanus murchisonae2 sites
- Bibio curtisi2 sites
- Bibio spectabilis2 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis2 sites
- Fintona nigripalpis2 sites
- Plecia bucklandi2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Plecia livida2 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides2 sites
- Plecia morio2 sites
- Acrididae1 site
- Aixaphis oligocenica1 site
- Allodia pallipes1 site
- Alydidae1 site
- Alysia meunieri1 site
- Aphanus dilatatus1 site
- Aphidius maximus1 site
- Apioninae1 site
- Aquisextana irenaei1 site
- Bibio1 site
- Bibio baumbergeri1 site
- Bibio celasensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aphrophora coquandi, 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- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France3
- Notes complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles oligocènes des gypses d'Aix-en-Provence1
Each of the 4 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 Aphrophora coquandi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Aphrophora coquandi 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 itAphrophora through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Theobald 1937