Camponotites

Camponotites

Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
FormicinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 15 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 58 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 58 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.3–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–5.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.0–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence45.9 Mya3.6 Mya52 Mya2 Mya

58 occurrences of Camponotites on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

58 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

11 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EÚstí — 50.76°N, 14.24°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°EJijuntun — 41.84°N, 123.90°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°W

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The named rock units Camponotites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Camponotites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Camponotites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,956 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Camponotites, 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

23 references

Each of the 58 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. 11 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 Camponotites

Credit
Nicolas Théobald
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steinbach 1967