Gerontodacus skalskii
No picture of Gerontodacus skalskii 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 Gerontodacus skalskii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GerontodacusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Gerontodacus skalskii 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gerontodacus skalskii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gerontodacus skalskii and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Gerontodacus skalskii and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Archaeatropos alavensis3 sites
- Alavaromma orchamum2 sites
- Alavatanais carabe2 sites
- Archaeromma hispanicum2 sites
- Arra legalovi2 sites
- Berothidae2 sites
- Burmaphron jentilak2 sites
- Cretasonoma corinformibus2 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) zherikhini2 sites
- Megalava truncata2 sites
- Mesoraphidiidae2 sites
- Orchestina2 sites
- Preempheria antiqua2 sites
- Afrapia nihtmara1 site
- Alavamanota hispanica1 site
- Alavametra popovi1 site
- Alavaraphidia imperterrita1 site
- Alavascelio delvallei1 site
- Alavatanais margulisae1 site
- Alavesia subiasi1 site
- Alavesiaphis margaritae1 site
- Albicar contriti1 site
- Albocryptophagus cantabricus1 site
- Allocotocera xavieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gerontodacus skalskii, 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
3 references- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Early Cretaceous El Soplao amber (N Spain)1
- Microphorites (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just (Spain), and the co-occurrence of two ceratopogonid species in Spanish amber deposits1
- Biting midges (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) from the lower Cretaceous Amber from Alava, Spain1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Gerontodacus skalskii 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 Gerontodacus skalskii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gerontodacus skalskii 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.
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What may have been alongside itGerontodacus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Szadziewski and Arillo 1998)