Mesoraphidia longistigmosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesoraphidiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mesoraphidia longistigmosa 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
2 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
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group2
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The named rock units Mesoraphidia longistigmosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesoraphidia longistigmosa and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mesoraphidia longistigmosa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Baissoptera liaoningensis2 sites
- Siboptera fornicata2 sites
- Stenoraphidia obliquivenatica2 sites
- Aeschnidium heishankowensis1 site
- Alleremonomus xingi1 site
- Anomoscytina anomala1 site
- Baissoptera bicolor1 site
- Baissoptera grandis1 site
- Baissoptera sinica1 site
- Beipiaoraphidia martynovi1 site
- Caloraphidia glossophylla1 site
- Choromyrmeleon othneius1 site
- Chrysogomphus beipiaoensis1 site
- Eopangonius pletus1 site
- Florinemestrius pulcherrimus1 site
- Grammoraphidia ponomarenkoi1 site
- Guocordulia boreala1 site
- Hagiphasma paradoxa1 site
- Ilerdocossus beipiaoensis1 site
- Ilerdocossus exiguus1 site
- Ilerdocossus hui1 site
- Kalligramma liaoningense1 site
- Lapicixius decorus1 site
- Lasiosmylus newi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesoraphidia longistigmosa, 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- The snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China: systematic revision and phylogenetic implications1
- A new discovery of snake-flies (Insecta) from Late Jurassic of Beipiao, Liaoning1
Each of the 2 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 longistigmosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 longistigmosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesoraphidia longistigmosa 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 1994)