Electrocera prima
No picture of Electrocera prima 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 Electrocera prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElectroceraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Electrocera prima on record, most of them in the Late 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- Late 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.
Electrocera prima and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Electrocera prima and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Aleksiana rasnitsyni1 site
- Burmahelea neli1 site
- Burmahesperinus1 site
- Burmahesperinus antennatus1 site
- Burmahesperinus conicus1 site
- Burmahesperinus pedicellatus1 site
- Burmasymmerus korneliae1 site
- Burmasymmerus wieslawi1 site
- Burmatricha mesozoica1 site
- Burmomerope clara1 site
- Burmorthophlebia multiprocessa1 site
- Chilelimnophila (Chilelimnophila) parva1 site
- Chilelimnophila (Chilelimnophila) wangi1 site
- Corethrella andersoni1 site
- Cretolbia burmitica1 site
- Cretolbia hukawnga1 site
- Cretolimonia mikolajczyki1 site
- Cretopleciofungivora simpsoni1 site
- Culicoides (Groganomyia) burmiticus1 site
- Decessia podenasi1 site
- Drinosa prisca1 site
- Electrocera payini1 site
- Longiphlebes excelsior1 site
- Macrocera pawli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Electrocera prima, 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 reference- Long story of long antennae: Mesozoic origins of the subfamily Macrocerinae (Diptera: Keroplatidae)1
Each 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 content0
No picture of Electrocera prima 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 Electrocera prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Electrocera prima 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 itElectrocera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pełczyńska and Soszyńska 2025