Ctenoplectrella
No picture of Ctenoplectrella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ctenoplectrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CtenoplectrellinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
18 occurrences of Ctenoplectrella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
18 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Ctenoplectrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ctenoplectrella and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ctenoplectrella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,126 taxa- Archaea paradoxa4 sites
- Arctogephyra agilis4 sites
- Glyptapis fuscula4 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri4 sites
- Lype sericea4 sites
- Plectrocnemia lata4 sites
- Prenolepis henschei4 sites
- Prodinapsis succinalis4 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini4 sites
- Protobombus (Protobombus) hirsutus4 sites
- Tetraponera simplex4 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi4 sites
- Archaeotinodes grossa3 sites
- Archipseudophasmatidae3 sites
- Bradoponera meieri3 sites
- Clostes priscus3 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti3 sites
- Electrapis (Mesomelissa) tornquisti3 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei3 sites
- Formica flori3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Glyptapis mirabilis3 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea3 sites
- Holocentropus atratus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ctenoplectrella, 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
8 references- A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera)11
- New genera of melikertine bees with facial modifications in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Apidae)1
- A new species of Ctenoplectrella in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)1
- The oldest fossil of a melittid bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from the early Eocene of Oise (France)1
- An Eocene Bee in Rovno Amber, Ukraine (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)1
- L'ambre Balte et sa faune entomologique avec description de deux apoides nouveaux1
- Three bees from Baltic amber1
- Descriptions of Hymenoptera from Baltic amber1
Each of the 18 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 Ctenoplectrella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ctenoplectrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ctenoplectrella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCtenoplectrellina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cockerell 1909