Helastia

Helastia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Achille Guenée in 1868. It is considered by some to be a synonym of Larentia. This genus was redefined and described in 1987 by Robin C. Craw. This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Helastia

Donald Hobern · CC BY 2.0 · 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
LarentiinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.2 Mya83.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Helastia on record, most of them in the Late 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

1 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

1 formation

Monro Conglomerate — 43.51°S, 171.64°E

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

Helastia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Helastia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helastia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Helastia

Credit
Donald Hobern
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Helastia 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.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLarentiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guenee 1868