Guocordulia boreala
No picture of Guocordulia boreala was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Guocordulia boreala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GuocorduliaPBDB
- 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 most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Guocordulia boreala 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
2 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
1 formation
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group2
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The named rock units Guocordulia boreala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Guocordulia boreala and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Guocordulia boreala and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Alleremonomus xingi2 sites
- Aeschnidium heishankowensis1 site
- Amplicella1 site
- Amplicella beipiaoensis1 site
- Amplicella exquisita1 site
- Amplicella exquisitissima1 site
- Amplicella flagellata1 site
- Amplicella spinata1 site
- Amplicella townesi1 site
- Angaridyela endemica1 site
- Angaridyela exculpta1 site
- Angaridyela robusta1 site
- Angaridyela suspecta1 site
- Angarosphex saxosus1 site
- Anomoscytina anomala1 site
- Baissoptera liaoningensis1 site
- Beipiaoserphus elegans1 site
- Brachysyntexis robusta1 site
- Ceratoxyela decorosa1 site
- Choromyrmeleon othneius1 site
- Chrysogomphus beipiaoensis1 site
- Crephanogaster rara1 site
- Cretaceonanobius fossilis1 site
- Cretevania exquisita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Guocordulia boreala, 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- Redescription of the 'libelluloid' Mesocordulia boreala (Odonata: Mesocorduliidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China1
- Three new genera and three new species of dragonflies from the late Jurassic of Northeast China1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Guocordulia boreala was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Guocordulia boreala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Guocordulia boreala 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGuocordulia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ren and Guo 1996)