Cretevania

Cretevania is an extinct genus of Evaniidae, which lived in what is now China, Burma, England, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia and Spain during the Cretaceous period. the genus was described by Rasnitsyn in 1975, and the type species is Cretevania minor.

No picture of Cretevania 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 Cretevania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EvaniidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 17 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125.77 Mya85.7 Mya134 Mya83 Mya

24 occurrences of Cretevania 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

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

Yixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ELas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°E

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The named rock units Cretevania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cretevania and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cretevania and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cretevania, 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

15 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. 3 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 content0

No picture of Cretevania 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 Cretevania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cretevania 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

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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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What may have been alongside itEvaniidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasnitsyn 1975