Mesoraphidia amoena
No picture of Mesoraphidia amoena 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 Mesoraphidia amoena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesoraphidiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 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 Mesoraphidia amoena 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
2 formations
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group2
- Laiyang Formation1
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The named rock units Mesoraphidia amoena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesoraphidia amoena and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mesoraphidia amoena and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Baissoptera grandis2 sites
- Baissoptera liaoningensis2 sites
- Caloraphidia glossophylla2 sites
- Mesoraphidia heteroneura2 sites
- Siboptera fornicata2 sites
- Yixianoraphidia anomala2 sites
- Allocotoraphidia myrioneura1 site
- Baissoptera bicolor1 site
- Baissoptera sinica1 site
- Beipiaoraphidia martynovi1 site
- Grammoraphidia ponomarenkoi1 site
- Habroblattula laiyangensis1 site
- Mesoraphidia longistigmosa1 site
- Mesoraphidia sinica1 site
- Microbaissoptera monosticha1 site
- Necromera1 site
- Proraphidia jepsoni1 site
- Proraphidia yixianensis1 site
- Stenoraphidia longioccipitalis1 site
- Stenoraphidia obliquivenatica1 site
- Styporaphidia willmanni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesoraphidia amoena, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- The first discovery of Mesoraphidia amoena (Raphidioptera: Raphidiomorpha: Mesoraphidiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Laiyang Formation of China1
- The snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China: systematic revision and phylogenetic implications1
- Studies on the late Mesozoic snake-flies of China (Raphidoiptera: Baissopteridae, Mesoraphidiidae, Alloraphidiidae)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
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No picture of Mesoraphidia amoena 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 Mesoraphidia amoena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesoraphidia amoena 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.
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What may have been alongside itMesoraphidia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ren 1997