Physohelea obtusa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhysoheleaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Physohelea obtusa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Physohelea obtusa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Physohelea obtusa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,610 taxa- Atyphohelea cothurnata3 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus3 sites
- Bradoponera meieri3 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis3 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti3 sites
- Culicoides speciosus3 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus3 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa3 sites
- Fossihelea gracilitarsis3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri3 sites
- Mantohelea laca3 sites
- Monogedania clunipes3 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea3 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea3 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni3 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi3 sites
- Plategeocranus sulcatus3 sites
- Prenolepis henschei3 sites
- Scutoribates perornatus3 sites
- Serromyia spinigera3 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata3 sites
- Strieremaeus illibatus3 sites
- Tetraponera simplex3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Physohelea obtusa, 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- Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique2
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine)1
- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber1
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 content0
No picture of Physohelea obtusa 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 Physohelea obtusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Physohelea obtusa 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 itPhysohelea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meunier 1904)