Eocenomyrma orthospina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EocenomyrmaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eocenomyrma orthospina 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
2 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.
Eocenomyrma orthospina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eocenomyrma orthospina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
598 taxa- Atyphohelea cothurnata2 sites
- Bezzia eocenica2 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus2 sites
- Bradoponera meieri2 sites
- Ceratopogon2 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis2 sites
- Ceratopogon grogani2 sites
- Ceratopogon hennigi2 sites
- Ceratopogon margaritae2 sites
- Ceratopogon tertiaricus2 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti2 sites
- Culicoides2 sites
- Culicoides speciosus2 sites
- Cymbiohahnia parens2 sites
- Dasyhelea2 sites
- Dysanabatium kechrimparense2 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus2 sites
- Eohelea gedanica2 sites
- Eohelea petrunkevitchi2 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa2 sites
- Forcipomyia2 sites
- Fossihelea gracilitarsis2 sites
- Gedanohelea loewi2 sites
- Germaraphis (Balticorostrum) oblonga2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eocenomyrma orthospina, 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- Further data on the extinct ant genus Eocenomyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)1
- A new ant genus from the late Eocene European amber1
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. 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 content1

Picture of Eocenomyrma orthospina
- 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 Eocenomyrma orthospina 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 itEocenomyrma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dlussky and Radchenko 2006