Cretophasmomima melanogramma

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- CretophasmomimaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cretophasmomima melanogramma 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
1 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
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
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The named rock units Cretophasmomima melanogramma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cretophasmomima melanogramma and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cretophasmomima melanogramma and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Acephialtitia colossa1 site
- Antiqusolidus maculatus1 site
- Baissoleon similis1 site
- Cimbrophlebia rara1 site
- Cretodascillus sinensis1 site
- Cretohypna cristata1 site
- Cretohypna puncta1 site
- Cretohypna robusta1 site
- Falsisophoaeschna generalis1 site
- Flexicorpus acutirostratus1 site
- Ghilarella elegantula1 site
- Halonatusivena nervosus1 site
- Ithigramma1 site
- Ithigramma multinervia1 site
- Magicivena1 site
- Mongoliaeshna exiguusens1 site
- Mongoliaeshna hadrens1 site
- Nymphites1 site
- Oregramma1 site
- Oregramma aureolusa1 site
- Paleowinus chinensis1 site
- Paleowinus fossilis1 site
- Paleowinus mirabilis1 site
- Probaisselcana euryptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cretophasmomima melanogramma, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cretophasmomima melanogramma
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cretophasmomima melanogramma 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 itCretophasmomima through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang et al. 2014