Myzinum

Myzinum is a genus of wasps in the family Thynnidae. There are 63 species presently recognized in Myzinum. They measure 7–24 mm. They parasitize white grubs, including Phyllophaga. They are used as biological controls.

Myzinum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyzininaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–195 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59.24 Mya4.7 Mya63 Mya195 ka

3 occurrences of Myzinum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

Menat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°W

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

Myzinum and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Myzinum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Myzinum, 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

3 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Myzinum

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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMyzininae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1803