Ophryastites cinereus
No picture of Ophryastites cinereus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ophryastites cinereus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphryastitesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ophryastites cinereus 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
2 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Ophryastites cinereus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophryastites cinereus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ophryastites cinereus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anthonomus defossus1 site
- Coenagrionoidea1 site
- Cryptorhynchus evinctus1 site
- Curculio femoratus1 site
- Curculio minusculus1 site
- Cyttaromyia princetoniana1 site
- Dicranomyia stagnorum1 site
- Geralophus occultus1 site
- Hadoa grandiosa1 site
- Otiorhynchites absentivus1 site
- Smicrorhynchus macgeei1 site
- Spiladopygia exsulata1 site
- Tipula florissanta1 site
- Tipula internecata1 site
- Tipula subterjacens1 site
- Toxorhynchus pumilum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ophryastites cinereus, 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
2 references- On some fossil rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado1
- Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Ophryastites cinereus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ophryastites cinereus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophryastites cinereus 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 itOphryastites through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1893