Gomphaeschnidae

No picture of Gomphaeschnidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Gomphaeschnidae itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gomphaeschnidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeoaeshnidaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Odonata
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata

Time the record covers

At least 134 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 33 of 65 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 65 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 65 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 8 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 17 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 9 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences137.05 Mya2.58 Mya142 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Gomphaeschnidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

65 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

22 formations

Crato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WPaskapoo — 52.33°N, 113.74°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.59°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.83°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EDoronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°EShinekhudag — 44.72°N, 107.92°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°EOya — 32.63°N, 130.17°EBembridge Marls — 50.74°N, 1.36°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELatah — 46.74°N, 116.27°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WMost — 50.57°N, 13.73°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WMühldorf — 46.80°N, 14.81°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°W

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The named rock units Gomphaeschnidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gomphaeschnidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Gomphaeschnidae, 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

32 references

Each of the 65 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. 20 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 content0

No picture of Gomphaeschnidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Gomphaeschnidae itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gomphaeschnidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNeoaeshnida through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard and Fraser 1940