Metrocephala anderseni
No picture of Metrocephala anderseni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metrocephala anderseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetrocephalaPBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Metrocephala anderseni 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
5 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.
Metrocephala anderseni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Metrocephala anderseni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
655 taxa- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti3 sites
- Eotemnothorax gracilis3 sites
- Archipseudophasma2 sites
- Archipseudophasmatidae2 sites
- Balticophasmatini2 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum2 sites
- Bradoponera meieri2 sites
- Clostes priscus2 sites
- Ctenoplectrella2 sites
- Electromyrmex wheeleri2 sites
- Eocenomyrma rugosostriata2 sites
- Eomiagrammopes spinipes2 sites
- Germaraphis dryoides2 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi2 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea2 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri2 sites
- Megatoma electra2 sites
- Mengeaphis glandulosa2 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea2 sites
- Palaeomyrmecolax weitschati2 sites
- Paraspermophora perplexa2 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi2 sites
- Plagiolepis solitaria2 sites
- Prenolepis henschei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Metrocephala anderseni, 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- Water measurers from the Baltic amber (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Hydrometridae)3
- Fossil water striders in the Eocene Baltic amber (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha)2
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Metrocephala anderseni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metrocephala anderseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metrocephala anderseni was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMetrocephala through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov 1996