Orthocentrus
Orthocentrus is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. There are at least 90 described species in Orthocentrus.
Benjamin Smith from United States · 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
- OrthocentrinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 129 ka.
4 occurrences of Orthocentrus on record. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene75%
- Pleistocene25%
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
2 formations
- Florissant Formation3
- Miyajima Formation · Shiobara Group1
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The named rock units Orthocentrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Aptesini1 site
- Banchus shiobaraensis1 site
- Camponotus1 site
- Campopleginae1 site
- Cryptini1 site
- Ectopria opaca1 site
- Ichneumonidae1 site
- Ichneumoninae1 site
- Ichneumonini1 site
- Lasius1 site
- Microleptes1 site
- Nematinae1 site
- Phygadeuontinae1 site
- Pimpla1 site
- Pimplinae1 site
- Psepheninae1 site
- Sciara katoi1 site
- Sieboldius albardae1 site
- Tenthredinidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Orthocentrus, 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
3 references- The parasitic Hymenoptera of the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado2
- Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan1
- Fossil Parasitic and Phytophagous Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado1
Each of the 4 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 Orthocentrus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Benjamin Smith from United States
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOrthocentrinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gravenhorst 1829