Pimpla

Pimpla are a worldwide genus of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. They are one of the largest genera within the subfamily Pimplinae.

Pimpla

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PimpliniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 10 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 23 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences45.9 Mya774 ka52 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Pimpla on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

23 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

9 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EShahejie — 37.87°N, 118.79°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°E

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The named rock units Pimpla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pimpla and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pimpla and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

929 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pimpla, 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

Each of the 23 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 Pimpla

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fabricius 1804