Oliarus

Cory Campora from Kailua, HI, US · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
- PentastiriniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Oliarus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- 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
- Mazantic Shale Formation · Simojovel Group2
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The named rock units Oliarus 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.
Oliarus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oliarus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Alepia1 site
- Alumeda solorzanokraemerae1 site
- Amblypsilopus1 site
- Amblypsilopus monicae1 site
- Anacaena1 site
- Anyphaenidae1 site
- Apocephalus chiapanecus1 site
- Araneae1 site
- Archipsocus1 site
- Azteca1 site
- Belaphotroctes1 site
- Boletina1 site
- Borinquena schawallfussi1 site
- Brachydeutera1 site
- Brachypogon (Isohelea)1 site
- Calcaritermes1 site
- Camponotus1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Cenanges1 site
- Cenocephalus hurdi1 site
- Cenocephalus succinicaptus1 site
- Cenocephalus tenuis1 site
- Cephalotes1 site
- Cephalotes ventriosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Oliarus, 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- Systematic, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the insect fauna from Mexican amber2
- Oliarus kulicka sp. n. from Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Oliarus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Cory Campora from Kailua, HI, US
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oliarus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPentastirini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stal 1862