Bethylidae

The Bethylidae are a family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea. As a family, their biology ranges between parasitoid wasps and hunting wasps.

Bethylidae

This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands. · CC BY 3.0 · 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
Also called
flat waspPBDB
Sits inside
ChrysidoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 144 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 144 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 144 occurrencesEocene — about 87 of 144 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 144 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 144 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 144 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 144 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 8 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 12 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 66 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

144 occurrences of Bethylidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

144 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

12 formations

Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°Wla Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGidarinskaya — 51.31°N, 119.61°EGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.03°W

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The named rock units Bethylidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bethylidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bethylidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Bethylidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

59 references

Each of the 144 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. 47 further references are not listed. 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 Bethylidae

Credit
This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bethylidae 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.

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 itChrysidoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forster 1856