Miopsyche alexanderi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiopsychePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Miopsyche alexanderi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Miopsyche alexanderi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Miopsyche alexanderi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Miopsyche alexanderi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Bombus proavus1 site
- Dytiscus latahensis1 site
- Formicidae1 site
- Miocordulia latipennis1 site
- Miopsyche martynovi1 site
- Parastylotermes washingtonensis1 site
- Phryganea spokanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Miopsyche alexanderi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Miopsyche alexanderi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Miopsyche alexanderi 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 itMiopsyche through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1931