Cenocephalus hurdi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CenocephalusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cenocephalus hurdi 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
2 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
- Mazantic Shale Formation · Simojovel Group1
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The named rock units Cenocephalus hurdi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cenocephalus hurdi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cenocephalus hurdi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Agriotes succiniferus1 site
- Alepia1 site
- Alumeda solorzanokraemerae1 site
- Amblypsilopus1 site
- Amblypsilopus monicae1 site
- Anacaena1 site
- Anyphaenidae1 site
- Apocephalus chiapanecus1 site
- Araneae1 site
- Araneus exustus1 site
- Archipsocus1 site
- Azteca1 site
- Belaphotroctes1 site
- Boletina1 site
- Brachydeutera1 site
- Brachypogon (Isohelea)1 site
- Bradysia1 site
- Calcaritermes1 site
- Camponotus1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Cenanges1 site
- Cenocephalus succinicaptus1 site
- Cenocephalus tenuis1 site
- Cephalotes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cenocephalus hurdi, 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- New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications1
- New Platypodidae from Mexican amber1
Each of the 2 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 Cenocephalus hurdi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cenocephalus hurdi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCenocephalus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schedl 1962