Cydnus pygmaeus

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
- CydnusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cydnus pygmaeus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Cydnus pygmaeus 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.
Cydnus pygmaeus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cydnus pygmaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Aphidecta marginata2 sites
- Apioninae2 sites
- Chrysochloa pulchra2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Cydnus armiger2 sites
- Cydnus dignus2 sites
- Cydnus sagittifer2 sites
- Cydnus solutus2 sites
- Cydnus tertiarius2 sites
- Eysarcoris2 sites
- Oxytelus ominosus2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Solenopsis superba2 sites
- Solenopsis valida2 sites
- Acanthosoma debile1 site
- Aeshna heterofasciata1 site
- Aeshnidae1 site
- Allactoneura veiti1 site
- Altica magna1 site
- Amphotis depressa1 site
- Anchomenus bipunctatus1 site
- Aphanus contractus1 site
- Aphrophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cydnus pygmaeus, 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- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France1
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt1
Each of the 2 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
Media content1

Picture of Cydnus pygmaeus
- 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 Cydnus pygmaeus 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 itCydnus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1853)