Meiatermes

The Meiatermes is an extinct genus of termites that belonged to the Hodotermitidae. Their fossils have been obtained from early Cretaceous deposits in Brazil and Spain.

Meiatermes

Meiatermes_bertrani.jpg : Eduard Solà derivative work: த*உழவன் · Public Domain · 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
EuisopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous126–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121.4 Mya119.57 Mya126.3 Mya112.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Meiatermes 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

14 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

3 formations

Crato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°E

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

Meiatermes and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Meiatermes and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

355 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Meiatermes, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 Meiatermes

Credit
Meiatermes_bertrani.jpg : Eduard Solà derivative work: த*உழவன்
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meiatermes 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.

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What may have been alongside itEuisoptera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacasa Ruiz and Martínez-Delclòs 1986