Ororaphidia megalocephala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OroraphidiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ororaphidia megalocephala on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Ororaphidia megalocephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ororaphidia megalocephala and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ororaphidia megalocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Styporaphidia magia2 sites
- Abrderma gracilentum1 site
- Archirhagio gracilentus1 site
- Archirhagio striatus1 site
- Archirhagio varius1 site
- Archirhagio zhangi1 site
- Archisargus aequinervus1 site
- Bacharaboilus curvus1 site
- Entelegynae1 site
- Fuscopolystoechotes reticulatus1 site
- Itaphlebia elegana1 site
- Juraphlebia eugeniae1 site
- Karatavites medius1 site
- Karatavites ningchengensis1 site
- Lichenipolystoechotes angustimaculatus1 site
- Mesoraphidia daohugouensis1 site
- Nilionympha shantouensis1 site
- Novaboilus multifurcatus1 site
- Ororaphidia bifurcata1 site
- Orthobittacus suni1 site
- Orthophlebia densa1 site
- Orthophlebia elenae1 site
- Orthophlebia extensa1 site
- Orthophlebia luanpingensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ororaphidia megalocephala, 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- Review of the fossil snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) in the Middle Jurassic of China, with description of a new species1
- New snakeflies from the Jiulongshan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China (Raphidioptera)1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ororaphidia megalocephala 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 Ororaphidia megalocephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ororaphidia megalocephala 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 itOroraphidia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engel and Ren 2008