Cimbrophlebia

Cimbrophlebia is an extinct genus of Mecoptera which existed from the Jurassic to the Eocene period.

Cimbrophlebia

Rene Sylvestersen at English Wikipedia · 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
CimbrophlebiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 9 occurrencesEocene168–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence154.8 Mya56 Mya168 Mya46 Mya

9 occurrences of Cimbrophlebia on record. 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

9 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

4 formations

Klondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.73°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°E

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The named rock units Cimbrophlebia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cimbrophlebia, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 Cimbrophlebia

Credit
Rene Sylvestersen at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cimbrophlebia 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 itCimbrophlebiidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Willmann 1977