Ripilarva
No picture of Ripilarva 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 Ripilarva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RipidiinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Ripilarva on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrences- Late 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
2 formations
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group1
- Kheta Formation1
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The named rock units Ripilarva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ripilarva and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ripilarva and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
229 taxa- Culicoides filipalpis2 sites
- Acanthomantispa immaculata1 site
- Acanthomantispa maculata1 site
- Achlyoconis heptatrichia1 site
- Agaphora iunior1 site
- Alienopterus brachyelytrus1 site
- Allocotidus melpomene1 site
- Allopteroneura burmana1 site
- Amberathyreus beuteli1 site
- Antonaphis affinis1 site
- Aphidocallis caudatus1 site
- Aphytocerus communis1 site
- Aposerphites solox1 site
- Araneoidea1 site
- Araneomorphae1 site
- Archaelachesis granulosa1 site
- Archaeopolycentra achupomotet1 site
- Archaeopolycentra turvalsia1 site
- Archaeopolycentra yantardakh1 site
- Archaeopolycentra zherikhini1 site
- Archaeoxylita zherichini1 site
- Archaepyris minutus1 site
- Archaeromma mandibulatum1 site
- Archaeromma minutissimum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ripilarva, 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 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ripilarva 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 Ripilarva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ripilarva 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 itRipidiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Batelka and Beutel 2024