Serphites paradoxus
No picture of Serphites paradoxus 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 Serphites paradoxus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerphitesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Serphites paradoxus 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
11 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
1 formation
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group8
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The named rock units Serphites paradoxus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Serphites paradoxus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Serphites paradoxus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Culicoides filipalpis8 sites
- Atriculicoides globosus6 sites
- Peronehelea chrimikalydia5 sites
- Archaeromma minutissimum4 sites
- Culicoides canadensis4 sites
- Culicoides tyrrelli4 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus4 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon vetus4 sites
- Archaeromma nearcticum3 sites
- Atriculicoides3 sites
- Baeomorpha ovatata3 sites
- Cretomiastor ferejunctus3 sites
- Culicoides obuncus3 sites
- Heleageron arenatus3 sites
- Mesozoicaphis canadensis3 sites
- Serphites bruesi3 sites
- Serphites hynemani3 sites
- Adelohelea glabra2 sites
- Baeomorpha dubitata2 sites
- Berothidae2 sites
- Longiradius foottitti2 sites
- Minyohelea pumilis2 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon remmi2 sites
- Popovophysa entzmingeri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Serphites paradoxus, 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- The serphitid wasps (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha: Serphitoidea) of Canadian Cretaceous amber9
- The first fossil tardigrade: Beorn leggi Cooper, from Cretaceous amber1
- Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber1
Each of the 11 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 Serphites paradoxus 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 Serphites paradoxus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Serphites paradoxus 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.
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What may have been alongside itSerphites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brues 1937