Prostigmata

Prostigmata is a suborder of mites belonging to the order Trombidiformes, which contains the "sucking" members of the "true mites" (Acariformes).

Prostigmata

Beatriz Moisset · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
TrombidiformesPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 59 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 59 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 59 occurrencesEocene — about 31 of 59 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 59 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 59 occurrencesMiocene122–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 18 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 13 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences113.2 Mya18.5 Mya122 Mya14 Mya

59 occurrences of Prostigmata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

59 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

6 formations

Barstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 41.03°N, 0.56°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°E

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The named rock units Prostigmata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prostigmata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Prostigmata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,737 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Prostigmata, 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

23 references

Each of the 59 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. 11 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 Prostigmata

Credit
Beatriz Moisset
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prostigmata 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.

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 itTrombidiformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.