Deinodryinus aptianus
Deinodryinus? aptianus is an extinct species of Deinodryinus in the wasp family Dryinidae. The species is solely known from a Cretaceous fossil found in Mongolia.

Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M. · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- DeinodryinusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Deinodryinus aptianus 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
- Dzun-Bain Formation · Bon Tsaagan Group1
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The named rock units Deinodryinus aptianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Deinodryinus aptianus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Deinodryinus aptianus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Allophalerus bontsaganensis1 site
- Anaglyphites minimus1 site
- Anaglyphites mongolicus1 site
- Aphrostigmon bontsaganicum1 site
- Aphrostigmon priapulus1 site
- Baissa mongolica1 site
- Baissobius carolianus1 site
- Blattodea1 site
- Brochocoleus alatus1 site
- Brochocoleus cossyphus1 site
- Brochocoleus planus1 site
- Caloblattina1 site
- Cretacattyma raveni1 site
- Cretevania meridionalis1 site
- Cretobestiola communis1 site
- Cretobestiola subpetiolata1 site
- Cretomegahexura platnicki1 site
- Cretophotina mongolica1 site
- Curiosivespa derivata1 site
- Cuspilongus ghilarovi1 site
- Dischysma maculata1 site
- Dischysma similis1 site
- Drepanorzeckia extrunculipennis1 site
- Drepanorzeckia plana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Deinodryinus aptianus, 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 Deinodryinus aptianus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M.
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Deinodryinus aptianus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDeinodryinus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olmi et al. 2010