Proplebeia dominicana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProplebeiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Proplebeia dominicana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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.
Proplebeia dominicana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Proplebeia dominicana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
861 taxa- Anthonomus (Anthomorphus) cruraluma2 sites
- Archeatelura sturmi2 sites
- Bradysia exoleta2 sites
- Caenocholax brodzinskyi2 sites
- Caenocholax dominicensis2 sites
- Caulophilus ashei2 sites
- Chilicola (Hylaeosoma) gracilis2 sites
- Chrosiothes curvispinosus2 sites
- Chrosiothes tumulus2 sites
- Corynoptera prisca2 sites
- Dryinus grimaldii2 sites
- Enacrosoma verrucosa2 sites
- Epidapus microspinus2 sites
- Faiditus crassipatellaris2 sites
- Geratozygops atropos2 sites
- Harpactosphecion sucinum2 sites
- Hirtodrosophila paleothoracis2 sites
- Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) manifesta2 sites
- Masteria sexoculata2 sites
- Meioneta fastigata2 sites
- Meioneta separata2 sites
- Milichiella dolichosurstyla2 sites
- Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) dominicanus2 sites
- Nops lobatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Proplebeia dominicana, 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
4 references- The extinct fauna of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Dominican amber: two new species and redescription of the male of Proplebeia dominicana (Wille and Chandler)1
- The known bee fauna of the Dominican amber1
- Die fossilen Spinnen im dominikanischen Bernstein1
- A new stingless bee from the Tertiary amber of the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera; Meliponini)1
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 content1

Picture of Proplebeia dominicana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Proplebeia dominicana 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProplebeia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wille and Chandler 1964)