Cretarchistigma essweini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretarchistigmaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cretarchistigma essweini 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
6 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
1 formation
- Crato Formation · Santana Group6
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The named rock units Cretarchistigma essweini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cretarchistigma essweini and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cretarchistigma essweini and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Araripegomphus andreneli5 sites
- Araripephlebia mirabilis5 sites
- Rafaeliana minima4 sites
- Wightonia araripina4 sites
- Araripeliupanshania annesuseae3 sites
- Cratosolpuga wunderlichi3 sites
- Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus3 sites
- Incertametra santanensis3 sites
- Araripescorpius ligabuei2 sites
- Chresmoda neotropica2 sites
- Colocrus indivicum2 sites
- Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) xavieri2 sites
- Cratoborellia gorbi2 sites
- Cratohexagenites longicercus2 sites
- Cratonepa enigmatica2 sites
- Cratovitisma oldreadi2 sites
- Cretereisma2 sites
- Eoproscopia martilli2 sites
- Ephemeroidea2 sites
- Ephemeroptera2 sites
- Euarchistigma marialuiseae2 sites
- Gomphaeschnaoides magnus2 sites
- Mariconitermes talicei2 sites
- Meiatermes araripena2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cretarchistigma essweini, 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
2 references- New fossil dragonflies from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-east Brazil (Insecta: Odonata)5
- Martill et al., 20071
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Cretarchistigma essweini 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 Cretarchistigma essweini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretarchistigma essweini 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCretarchistigma through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bechly 1998