Penthetria lugens
Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 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
- PenthetriaPBDB
- 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 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Penthetria lugens 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Penthetria lugens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Penthetria lugens and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Penthetria lugens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Plecia5 sites
- Bibionidae4 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
- Entimini4 sites
- Penthetria nervisinuata4 sites
- Plecia bucklandi4 sites
- Plecia foersteri4 sites
- Plecia livida4 sites
- Aphanus dilatatus3 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus3 sites
- Bibio3 sites
- Bibio curtisi3 sites
- Bibio curtisii3 sites
- Bibio spectabilis3 sites
- Formica sepulta3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio3 sites
- Pachycondyla dubia3 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana3 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides3 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus3 sites
- Allodia pallipes2 sites
- Apioninae2 sites
- Bibio celasensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Penthetria lugens, 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
3 references- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France4
- Notes complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles oligocènes des gypses d'Aix-en-Provence1
- Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains Tertiaires de la France, première partie, insectes fossiles de l'Auvergne1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Penthetria lugens
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Penthetria lugens 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 itPenthetria through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oustalet 1870)