Calopsectra
No picture of Calopsectra 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 Calopsectra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChironomidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Calopsectra on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Calopsectra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calopsectra and its relatives
MioceneWhere Calopsectra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Anostraca5 sites
- Dasyhelea antiqua5 sites
- Schistomerus californense5 sites
- Orthemis4 sites
- Thripidae4 sites
- Anaphothrips (Proscirtothrips) vitreus3 sites
- Protoarrenurus convergens3 sites
- Argenna fossilis2 sites
- Carpelimus2 sites
- Culicoides megacanthus2 sites
- Dasyhelea stenoceras2 sites
- Ceratopogoninae1 site
- Cletocamptus1 site
- Cryptotermes1 site
- Cybocephalus1 site
- Cybocephalus californicus1 site
- Dendryphantes1 site
- Entomobrya1 site
- Euscelis1 site
- Formicinae1 site
- Gnathotermes1 site
- Lycosidae1 site
- Melanthripidae1 site
- Melanthrips1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Calopsectra, 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- Miocene arthropods from the Mojave desert, California4
- Paleoecology of an exceptionally preserved arthropod fauna from lake deposits of the Miocene Barstow Formation, Southern California, U.S.A.1
Each of the 5 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 Calopsectra 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 Calopsectra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calopsectra was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChironomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kieffer 1909