Cretadromus
No picture of Cretadromus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cretadromus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DionychaPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cretadromus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
- Longjiang Formation1
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The named rock units Cretadromus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cretadromus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cretadromus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Araneus beipiaoensis1 site
- Coniferophyta1 site
- Cretaraneus liaoningensis1 site
- Daurlong wangi1 site
- Enantiornithes1 site
- Eosestheria sp.1 site
- Ephemeropsis trisetalis1 site
- Genibatrachus baoshanensis1 site
- Khinganornis hulunbuirensis1 site
- Lycoptera1 site
- Migmanychion laiyang1 site
- Nuominerpeton1 site
- Nuominerpeton aquilonaris1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Palaeocambarus licenti1 site
- Testudinata1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cretadromus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- First discovered diversified fossil locality of the Jehol Biota in the Greater Khingan Mountains, Inner Mongolia1
- A new fossil spider of the Philodromidae from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning province, China (Arachnida, Araneae)1
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
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No picture of Cretadromus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cretadromus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretadromus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDionycha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cheng et al. 2009