Entomobrya decora

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EntomobryaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Collembola
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Entomobrya decora on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Entomobrya decora 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.
Entomobrya decora and its relatives
MioceneWhere Entomobrya decora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Forcipomyia2 sites
- Procolobostema hurdi2 sites
- Anolis electrum1 site
- Benoibates chiapasensis1 site
- Bradysia1 site
- Drepanura1 site
- Entomobrya litigiosa1 site
- Entomobrya trifasciata1 site
- Eomysmena asta1 site
- Mastotermes electromexicus1 site
- Metopina1 site
- Mochloribatula smithi1 site
- Mysmena fossilis1 site
- Nasutitermes electrinus1 site
- Oppia setigera1 site
- Pronepos fossilis1 site
- Prorhinopsenius mexicanus1 site
- Psychoda tzotzili1 site
- Psyllipsocus1 site
- Scheloribates durhami1 site
- Seira frater1 site
- Trichomyia richardi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Entomobrya decora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 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 Entomobrya decora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Entomobrya decora 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 itEntomobrya through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nicolet 1847)