Neuroctenus

Neuroctenus is a genus of flat bugs in the Aradidae subfamily Mezirinae. There are about 7 described species in Neuroctenus.

Neuroctenus

Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya23.04 Mya48.8 Mya10.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Neuroctenus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

5 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

Messel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMae Sot — 16.71°N, 98.56°E

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The named rock units Neuroctenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neuroctenus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Neuroctenus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Neuroctenus, 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

4 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Neuroctenus

Credit
Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neuroctenus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itMezirinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fieber 1860