Platygastroidea

Platygastroidea is a superfamily of parasitoid wasps with more than 4400 described species, but it is estimated that there may be a total of about 10 000 species worldwide.

Platygastroidea

Benjamin Smith from United States · CC BY 2.0 · 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
YinproctaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 17 of 157 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 157 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 157 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 157 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 8 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 10 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 11 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 58 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Platygastroidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

157 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

12 formations

Escucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 41.03°N, 0.56°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EBattle — 49.24°N, 105.21°WHotont — 47.37°N, 102.39°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WPebas — 4.00°S, 73.15°WDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EKabaw — 21.68°N, 94.08°EHollín — 0.71°S, 77.79°W

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The named rock units Platygastroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 129 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platygastroidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Platygastroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Platygastroidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

46 references

Each of the 157 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. 34 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 Platygastroidea

Credit
Benjamin Smith from United States
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platygastroidea 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.

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 itYinprocta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haliday 1833