Glypta

Glypta is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.

Glypta

Gergely Várkonyi, Finnish Environment Institute · Copyrighted free use · 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
TenebrionoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 122 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence125.77 Mya3.6 Mya135 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Glypta 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

6 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

5 formations

Qingshila — 41.83°N, 116.69°EDabeigou — 40.82°N, 117.27°EGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°E

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The named rock units Glypta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Glypta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Glypta, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 content2

Picture of Glypta

Credit
Gergely Várkonyi, Finnish Environment Institute
Licence
Copyrighted free use
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itTenebrionoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hong 1984