Heterogaster breviscutatus

Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- HeterogasterPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Heterogaster breviscutatus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Heterogaster breviscutatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterogaster breviscutatus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heterogaster breviscutatus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Aphanus pulchellus1 site
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi1 site
- Bibio1 site
- Bibio major1 site
- Bibionidae1 site
- Calosoma ceresti1 site
- Chironomus aquisextanus1 site
- Chrysomela ceresti1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Cucujiformia1 site
- Curculionidae1 site
- Cydnus brevicollis1 site
- Dilophus1 site
- Enochrus innovatus1 site
- Entimini1 site
- Harpalus nero1 site
- Hemiptera1 site
- Heterogaster pumilio1 site
- Hilara heerii1 site
- Hydrophilidae1 site
- Hydroporus trimaculatus1 site
- Hylobius carbo1 site
- Hymenoptera1 site
- Laccobius vetustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heterogaster breviscutatus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Heterogaster breviscutatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Heterogaster breviscutatus 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 itHeterogaster through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Theobald 1937