Santanmantis axelrodi

Marie K. Hörnig, Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- SantanmantisPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Santanmantis axelrodi 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
4 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 Group4
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The named rock units Santanmantis axelrodi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Santanmantis axelrodi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Santanmantis axelrodi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
234 taxa- Mariconitermes talicei4 sites
- Meiatermes araripena4 sites
- Colocrus indivicum3 sites
- Cratomastotermes wolfschwenningeri3 sites
- Cretereisma3 sites
- Ponopterix axelrodi3 sites
- Protoischnurus axelrodorum3 sites
- Wightonia araripina3 sites
- Ampulicidae2 sites
- Araripegomphus andreneli2 sites
- Araripeliupanshania annesuseae2 sites
- Araripephlebia mirabilis2 sites
- Araripescorpius ligabuei2 sites
- Chresmoda neotropica2 sites
- Cordulagomphus fenestratus2 sites
- Cratokalotermes santanensis2 sites
- Cratosolpuga wunderlichi2 sites
- Cretarchistigma essweini2 sites
- Elisama brevis2 sites
- Eoproscopia martilli2 sites
- Eoprotoneura hyperstigma2 sites
- Ephemeroidea2 sites
- Ephemeroptera2 sites
- Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Santanmantis axelrodi, 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- A revision of Cretaceous mantises and their relationships, including new taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea)2
- An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans1
- New details of Santanmantis axelrodi and the evolution of the mantodean morphotype1
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 content1

Picture of Santanmantis axelrodi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Marie K. Hörnig, Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Santanmantis axelrodi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSantanmantis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grimaldi 2003