Crabronidae

Crabronidae is a large family of wasps within the superfamily Apoidea.

Crabronidae

Muhammad Mahdi Karim · GFDL 1.2 · 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
ApoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.3–240 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence113.2 Mya3.6 Mya122 Mya240 ka

34 occurrences of Crabronidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

34 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

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EGreen River — 39.62°N, 108.01°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ECrato — 7.11°S, 39.69°W

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The named rock units Crabronidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crabronidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Crabronidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Crabronidae, 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

26 references

Each of the 34 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. 14 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 Crabronidae

Credit
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crabronidae 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Latreille 1802