Raphidiomorpha

No picture of Raphidiomorpha was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Raphidiomorpha itself, so it was not used. 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 Raphidiomorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphidiopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 185 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 229 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 229 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 229 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 229 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 136 of 229 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 30 of 229 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 229 occurrencesEocene — about 36 of 229 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 229 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 229 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 229 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 229 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences183–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 8 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–123 Mya — about 38 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 57 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 26 occurrences109–102 Mya — about 6 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 22 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 10 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 16 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–7.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.9–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences192.9 Mya7.246 Mya203 Mya1 Mya

229 occurrences of Raphidiomorpha on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

229 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

38 formations

Yixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.21°N, 119.25°EYixian — 41.75°N, 120.80°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EZaza — 53.20°N, 112.82°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCrato — 7.15°S, 39.72°WKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WLaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EWeald Clay — 51.14°N, 0.33°WWeald Clay — 51.10°N, 0.45°WDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.43°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.03°Wla Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°EJinju — 35.17°N, 128.13°EShahai — 41.25°N, 120.03°EKishenehn — 48.37°N, 113.67°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WSinuiju — 40.08°N, 124.43°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WLushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.74°N, 2.90°WRedmond — 54.69°N, 66.75°WShinekhudag — 44.72°N, 107.92°E

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The named rock units Raphidiomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Raphidiomorpha and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Raphidiomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,853 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Raphidiomorpha, 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

80 references

Each of the 229 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. 68 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 content0

No picture of Raphidiomorpha was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Raphidiomorpha itself, so it was not used.

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 Raphidiomorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Raphidiomorpha 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 itRaphidioptera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engel 2002