Evanioidea

The Evanioidea are a small hymenopteran superfamily that includes three extant families, two of which are much more closely related to one another than they are to the remaining family, Evaniidae. The rich fossil record, however, helps fill in the gaps between these lineages. They all share the trait of having the metasoma attached very high above the hind coxae on the propodeum.

Evanioidea

Muhammad Mahdi Karim · GFDL 1.2 · 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
ApocritaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 469 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 259 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 259 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 259 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 259 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 259 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 259 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 259 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 259 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 259 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 19 of 259 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 68 of 259 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 76 of 259 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 63 of 259 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 259 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 259 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 259 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 259 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 259 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 259 occurrences481–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–160 Mya — about 25 occurrences160–144 Mya — about 61 occurrences144–128 Mya — about 7 occurrences128–112 Mya — about 60 occurrences112–96 Mya — about 45 occurrences96–80 Mya — about 27 occurrences64–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–32 Mya — about 18 occurrences32–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences469.1 Mya11.7 ka481 Mya0 Mya

259 occurrences of Evanioidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

259 occurrences

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

33 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WLaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°Wla Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°ETurga — 52.96°N, 117.78°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WTsagaantsav — 44.52°N, 109.45°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.77°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ELas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WGidarinskaya — 51.32°N, 119.55°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°E

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The named rock units Evanioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Evanioidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Evanioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4,132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Evanioidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

94 references

Each of the 259 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. 82 further references are not listed. 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 Evanioidea

Credit
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Evanioidea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802