Chresmoda obscura

Chresmoda is an extinct genus of insects within the family Chresmodidae.

Chresmoda obscura

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 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
Sits inside
ChresmodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.7 Mya144.6 Mya

11 occurrences of Chresmoda obscura on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

11 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

1 formation

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°E

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The named rock units Chresmoda obscura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chresmoda obscura and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Chresmoda obscura and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Chresmoda obscura, 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

9 references

Each of the 11 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 Chresmoda obscura

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itChresmoda through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germar 1839