Pantalinae

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- LibellulidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
24 occurrences of Pantalinae 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
24 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
7 formations
- Gessoso-solfifera Formation4
- Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation3
- Rott Formation3
- Hydrobienkalk Formation1
- Karagan Formation1
- Campagne-Calavon Formation1
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The named rock units Pantalinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pantalinae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pantalinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
840 taxa- Coleoptera3 sites
- Hesperinus heeri3 sites
- Libellulidae3 sites
- Palaeotramea cellulosa3 sites
- Plecia collossea3 sites
- Plecia hypogaea3 sites
- Plecia pinguis3 sites
- Anisoptera2 sites
- Anomala tumulata2 sites
- Anthidium mortuum2 sites
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi2 sites
- Berosus (Berosus) morticinus2 sites
- Bibio germari2 sites
- Bibio janus2 sites
- Bibio mimas2 sites
- Boletina philyra2 sites
- Calosoma agassizi2 sites
- Cantharis (Cantharis) carbonaria2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Empis melia2 sites
- Entiminae2 sites
- Formicinae2 sites
- Hemiptera2 sites
- Hydrobiomorpha fraterna2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pantalinae, 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
13 references- Les Libellulidae fossiles. Un inventaire critique (Odon., Anisoptera, Libelluloidea)9
- Fossil Zygoptera and Anisoptera from the upper Miocene of Monte Castellaro (Pesaro, Marches, central Italy) (Insecta Odonata Coenagrionidae, Lestidae, Sieblosiidae, Calopterygidae, Libellulidae)2
- The upper Miocene dragonflies of Monte Castellaro (Marche, central Italy)2
- Two new species of Odonata from the Tertiary of Radoboj2
- New dragonflies from the Upper Eocene of the Isle of Wight, UK (Odonata: Anisoptera)1
- The diversity of Odonata and their endophytic ovipositions from the Upper Oligocene Fossillagerstätte of Rott (Rhineland, Germany)1
- New fossil Odonata from the European Cenozoic (Insecta: Odonata: Thaumatoneuridae, Aeshnidae, Idionychidae, Libellulidae)1
- Une nouvelle espèce d'Odonata fossile du stampien a'Aix-en Provence (B.d.R.) (Odonata Libellulidae)1
- Die Insektenfauna des Mainzer Hydrobienkalks1
- Die fossilen Insekten von Ungarn, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der europäischen Insekten-fauna1
- Sur quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott, Sept Montagnes (Prusse rhenane)1
- Nouvelles recherches sur quelques Insectes du Sannoisien D' Aix-en-Provence1
Each of the 24 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Pantalinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Forest & Kim Starr
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pantalinae 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 itLibellulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacobson and Bianchi 1905