Cimbrophlebiidae

Cimbrophlebiidae is an extinct family of scorpionflies. They are considered to be the sister group to the Bittacidae, together forming the clade Raptipedia.

Cimbrophlebiidae

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
Also called
hangingflyPBDB
Sits inside
RaptipediaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 24 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 10 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 24 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 6 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences182.9 Mya56 Mya187 Mya45 Mya

24 occurrences of Cimbrophlebiidae 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

24 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

7 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.73°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EFengjiashan — 33.85°N, 109.90°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°E

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The named rock units Cimbrophlebiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cimbrophlebiidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cimbrophlebiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

416 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cimbrophlebiidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 24 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 Cimbrophlebiidae

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

No 3D scan of Cimbrophlebiidae 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.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRaptipedia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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