Hylobittacus minimus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HylobittacusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Hylobittacus minimus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Hylobittacus minimus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hylobittacus minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
755 taxa- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata3 sites
- Hylobittacus fossilis3 sites
- Macrochile hornei3 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini3 sites
- Acrometa cristata2 sites
- Acrometa succini2 sites
- Anandrus inermis2 sites
- Araneae2 sites
- Balticophasma2 sites
- Cheilotrichia (Empeda) pawlowskii2 sites
- Electrochyliza succini2 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) longirostris2 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) pulchella2 sites
- Eodictyna communis2 sites
- Eolinus theryi2 sites
- Eomatachia latifrons2 sites
- Eomysmena oculata2 sites
- Episinus longimanus2 sites
- Ero permunda2 sites
- Esuritor spinipes2 sites
- Eustaloides setosus2 sites
- Eustaloides succini2 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi2 sites
- Harpactea extincta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hylobittacus minimus, 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- A revision of Eocene Bittacidae (Mecoptera) from Baltic amber, with the description of a new species2
- The Baltic Amber Mecoptera2
Each of the 4 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 Hylobittacus minimus
- 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 Hylobittacus minimus 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 itHylobittacus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1954)