Hydrophilus vexatorius

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HydrophilusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
3 occurrences of Hydrophilus vexatorius on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Hydrophilus vexatorius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hydrophilus vexatorius and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hydrophilus vexatorius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Anisoptera2 sites
- Aphrophora spumarioides2 sites
- Bibio brevis2 sites
- Bibio fusiformis2 sites
- Bibio moestus2 sites
- Camponotites lignitus2 sites
- Coccinella hesione2 sites
- Eysarcoris2 sites
- Formica macrophthalma2 sites
- Formica obesa oeningensis2 sites
- Formica orbata2 sites
- Formica pinguis oeningensis2 sites
- Formica procera2 sites
- Hydrophilus spectabilis2 sites
- Lytta aesculapii2 sites
- Myrmica2 sites
- Pachycoris germari2 sites
- Polyphaga2 sites
- Tettigoniidae2 sites
- Acilius oeningensis1 site
- Aeshna tyche1 site
- Anomalon protogaeum1 site
- Anthophorites titania1 site
- Anthophorites tonsa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hydrophilus vexatorius, 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- Heer, 18472
- Einige Insektenreste as den Jungtertiären Süsswasserablagerungen von Kumi (Insel Euboea, Griechenland)1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Hydrophilus vexatorius
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Hydrophilus vexatorius 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 itHydrophilus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1847