Lethocerus placidus
No picture of Lethocerus placidus 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 Lethocerus placidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LethocerusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lethocerus placidus 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
3 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
- Crato Formation · Santana Group3
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The named rock units Lethocerus placidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lethocerus placidus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Lethocerus placidus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Cretaceometra brasiliensis2 sites
- Prosyntexis gouleti2 sites
- Araripebelostomum martinsnetoi1 site
- Araripelibellula martinsnetoi1 site
- Araripenymphes seldeni1 site
- Austroraphidia brasiliensis1 site
- Baisopardus pumilio1 site
- Caririchrysa skulda1 site
- Caririraphidia reticulata1 site
- Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) xavieri1 site
- Cordulagomphus fenestratus1 site
- Cratochrysa martinsnetoi1 site
- Cratocordulia borschukewitzi1 site
- Cratoenigma articulata1 site
- Cratolocustopsis contumax1 site
- Cratonemopteryx speciosa1 site
- Cratonepa enigmatica1 site
- Cratoneura dividens1 site
- Cratotipula latialata1 site
- Cretapetalura brasiliensis1 site
- Euclydes ramosfernandesi1 site
- Isoptera1 site
- Karenina borschukewitzi1 site
- Karenina breviptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lethocerus placidus, 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 giant water bug from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae: Lethocerinae)2
- Paranoikidae Zamboni, Martins-Neto & Popov, 2002, a junior synonym of Belostomatidae Leach, 1815 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): Redescription of a giant water bug from Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Brazil1
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. 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 Lethocerus placidus 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 Lethocerus placidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lethocerus placidus 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 itLethocerus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zamboni et al. 2002)