Ripidius primordialis
No picture of Ripidius primordialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Ripidius primordialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RipidiusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ripidius primordialis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Ripidius primordialis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ripidius primordialis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
566 taxa- Amphientomum paradoxum3 sites
- Ceratopogon3 sites
- Elipsocus abnormis3 sites
- Forcipomyia3 sites
- Monogedania clunipes3 sites
- Psocidus multiplex3 sites
- Psocidus picteti3 sites
- Valenzuela proavus3 sites
- Aploceble (Aploceble) berendti2 sites
- Apostenus spinimanus2 sites
- Archaea paradoxa2 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus2 sites
- Ceratopogoninae2 sites
- Clya lugubris2 sites
- Culicoides2 sites
- Culicoides (Oecacta) dasyheleiformis2 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius2 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa2 sites
- Eomortoniellus handlirschi2 sites
- Epipsocus avus2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula2 sites
- Formica flori2 sites
- Fossihelea gracilitarsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ripidius primordialis, 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
3 references- Drei merkwürdige Bernstein-Insekten2
- New extinct Eocene Coleoptera in Baltic amber of Friedhelm Eichmann's collection (Germany)1
- Diversity of Eocene Ripiphoridae with descriptions of the first species of Pelecotominae and larva of Ripidiinae (Coleoptera)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 content0
No picture of Ripidius primordialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ripidius primordialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ripidius primordialis 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 itRipidius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stein 1877)