Araripelibellula britannica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraripelibellulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 141 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 137.05 Mya.
3 occurrences of Araripelibellula britannica 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
2 formations
- Lulworth Formation · Purbeck Group2
- Durlston Formation · Purbeck Group1
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The named rock units Araripelibellula britannica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araripelibellula britannica and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Araripelibellula britannica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Procramptonomyia marianna2 sites
- Aeschnidiidae1 site
- Agrionidium obscurum1 site
- Anglopetalura magnifica1 site
- Coptoclavella purbeckensis1 site
- Corydiidae1 site
- Cretalloaeschna cliffordae1 site
- Cretoxya rasnitsyni1 site
- Diastatopaeschnidium reneeheiko1 site
- Ellia purbeckensis1 site
- Elliidae1 site
- Eoptychoptera longifurcata1 site
- Eoptychopterina demissa1 site
- Eoptychopterina dimidiata1 site
- Eucorethrina westwoodi1 site
- Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli1 site
- Grimaldiraphidia purbeckensis1 site
- Jarzembowskiaeschnidium polandi1 site
- Mesogyrus anglicus1 site
- Mesolocustopsis anglica1 site
- Mesoraphidia durlstonensis1 site
- Mesoraphidia websteri1 site
- Minelcana dubia1 site
- Minelcana membranacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Araripelibellula britannica, 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 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
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No picture of Araripelibellula britannica 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 Araripelibellula britannica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araripelibellula britannica 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 itAraripelibellula through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleck et al. 2008