Rafaelianidae
No picture of Rafaelianidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rafaelianidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyrmeleontoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Rafaelianidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Crato Formation · Santana Group6
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Rafaelianidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rafaelianidae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Rafaelianidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Araripegomphus andreneli4 sites
- Cretarchistigma essweini4 sites
- Rafaeliana minima4 sites
- Araripephlebia mirabilis3 sites
- Cratosolpuga wunderlichi3 sites
- Araripeliupanshania annesuseae2 sites
- Araripescorpius ligabuei2 sites
- Colocrus indivicum2 sites
- Cratonepa enigmatica2 sites
- Cratopetalura petruleviciusi2 sites
- Cretereisma2 sites
- Eoproscopia martilli2 sites
- Euarchistigma atrophium2 sites
- Euarchistigma peterknobli2 sites
- Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus2 sites
- Incertametra santanensis2 sites
- Mariconitermes talicei2 sites
- Meiatermes araripena2 sites
- Mesoproctus rowlandi2 sites
- Paramorbaeschna araripensis2 sites
- Principiala incerta2 sites
- Protoischnurus axelrodorum2 sites
- Santanmantis axelrodi2 sites
- Wightonia araripina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rafaelianidae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Rafaelianidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rafaelianidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rafaelianidae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyrmeleontoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engel and Nel 2017