Cryptini

Judy Gallagher · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- CryptinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 129 ka.
9 occurrences of Cryptini on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Eocene22%
- Oligocene33%
- Miocene33%
- Pleistocene11%
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
6 formations
- Florissant Formation2
- Rott Formation2
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation1
- Latah Formation1
- Shanwang Formation1
- Miyajima Formation · Shiobara Group1
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The named rock units Cryptini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cryptini and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cryptini and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
700 taxa- Anisoptera2 sites
- Anthidium mortuum2 sites
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi2 sites
- Bibio germari2 sites
- Bibio janus2 sites
- Boletina2 sites
- Camponotus2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Hesperinus heeri2 sites
- Lasius2 sites
- Mycetophilidae2 sites
- Myrmica2 sites
- Palaeotramea cellulosa2 sites
- Phryganea2 sites
- Phryganea elegantula2 sites
- Pimplinae2 sites
- Plecia collossea2 sites
- Plecia hypogaea2 sites
- Plecia pinguis2 sites
- Plecia sluiteri2 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) veterana2 sites
- Tenthredo meunieri2 sites
- Tettigoniidae2 sites
- Tipula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cryptini, 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
9 references- Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan1
- Entomofauna from Miocene deposits near Juliaetta, Idaho1
- Zhang, 19891
- Neue Funde parasitischer Hymenopteren aus dem Tertiar von Rott am Siebengebirge1
- Ueber alte und neue fossile Hymenopterenfunde aus den Tertiaren Ablagerungen von Rott am Siebengebirge1
- Quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott, Sept-Monts (Prusse rhénane)1
- The parasitic Hymenoptera of the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado1
- Fossil Parasitic and Phytophagous Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado1
- Heer, 18491
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. 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 content1

Picture of Cryptini
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Judy Gallagher
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cryptini 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 itCryptinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirby 1837