Archisphex boothi
No picture of Archisphex boothi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archisphex boothi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchisphexPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Archisphex boothi 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
- Weald Clay Formation · Wealden Group3
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The named rock units Archisphex boothi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archisphex boothi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Archisphex boothi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Cretarchistigma greenwoodi3 sites
- Panorpidium bimaculatum2 sites
- "Clockhousea" sp.1 site
- Abietineaepollenites1 site
- Aequitriradites verrucosus1 site
- Aeschnidiidae1 site
- Alisporites bilateralis1 site
- Andyrossia joyceae1 site
- Angarosphex consensus1 site
- Angarosphex goldringi1 site
- Angloaeschnidium lacaui1 site
- Anglogryllus rotundispeculum1 site
- Archisphex curvus1 site
- Archisphex proximus1 site
- Baculatisporites comaumensis1 site
- Baryonyx walkeri1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brochocoleus keenani1 site
- Callialasporites dampieri1 site
- Cerebropollenites mesozoicus1 site
- cf. Bevhalstia pebja1 site
- cf. Valdicosus chesteri1 site
- Cicatricosisporites1 site
- Cicatricosisporites australiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archisphex boothi, 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- Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Purbeck and Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and their biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance2
- New insects from the Weald Clay of the Weald1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Archisphex boothi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archisphex boothi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itArchisphex through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jarzembowski 1991