Cretophotina mongolica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretophotinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Cretophotina mongolica 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
9 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
- Dzun-Bain Formation · Bon Tsaagan Group9
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The named rock units Cretophotina mongolica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cretophotina mongolica and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cretophotina mongolica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Praeblattella ponomarenkoi8 sites
- Elisama parallela7 sites
- Elisama tsaganica7 sites
- Blattodea6 sites
- Nuurcala popovi6 sites
- Petropterix mirabilis5 sites
- Syntemna tele4 sites
- Syntemna zhuzhan4 sites
- Tarakanula shcherbakovi4 sites
- Allophalerus bontsaganensis3 sites
- Archimesoblatta altera3 sites
- Brachilatus dundulaensis3 sites
- Brochocoleus cossyphus3 sites
- Brochocoleus planus3 sites
- Drepanorzeckia extrunculipennis3 sites
- Drepanorzeckia plana3 sites
- Ipsaneusidalys shato3 sites
- Notocupes elegans3 sites
- Notocupes mongolicus3 sites
- Omma longicolle3 sites
- Praeblattella dichotoma3 sites
- Anaglyphites minimus2 sites
- Anaglyphites mongolicus2 sites
- Baisodicrana mongolica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cretophotina mongolica, 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- Unique assemblage of Dictyoptera (Insecta - Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Bon Tsagaan Nuur in Mongolia8
- New Fossil Mantids (Insecta, Mantida [Sic])1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cretophotina mongolica 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 Cretophotina mongolica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretophotina mongolica 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 itCretophotina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993