Baeomorphidae

The Baeomorphidae, are a very small family of rare, relictual parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea, known primarily from fossils. Only two extant species are known, each in its own genus, one from New Zealand and one from Chile, and little is known about their biology, though there is suspicion that they are parasitoids of the relictual true bug family Peloridiidae.

Baeomorphidae

John T. Huber, Chungkun Shih, Ren Dong · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
ChalcidoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 7 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 9 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

34 occurrences of Baeomorphidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

34 occurrences

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

4 formations

Kheta — 72.03°N, 101.33°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EKheta — 70.93°N, 98.64°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°EBattle — 49.24°N, 105.21°W

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The named rock units Baeomorphidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baeomorphidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Baeomorphidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

618 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Baeomorphidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 34 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

Media content1

Picture of Baeomorphidae

Credit
John T. Huber, Chungkun Shih, Ren Dong
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Baeomorphidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChalcidoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yoshimoto 1975)