Paraphaenogaster

Paraphaenogaster

Vincent Perrichot · CC BY 4.0 · 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
StenamminiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

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.

Eocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33.9 Mya7.246 Mya38.4 Mya4.7 Mya

37 occurrences of Paraphaenogaster on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

37 occurrences

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

8 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EChojabaru — 33.78°N, 129.80°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFuzawa — 37.31°N, 139.49°EKizi — 45.48°N, 137.21°E

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The named rock units Paraphaenogaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraphaenogaster and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Paraphaenogaster and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

868 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Paraphaenogaster, 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

15 references

Each of the 37 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. 3 further references are 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 Paraphaenogaster

Credit
Vincent Perrichot
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paraphaenogaster 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.

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What may have been alongside itStenammini through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dlussky 1981