Sieblosiidae

Gaëlle Doitteau · 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
- ZygopteraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.09 Mya.
34 occurrences of Sieblosiidae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
34 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Campagne-Calavon Formation6
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation4
- Karagan Formation3
- Gypsum des Camoins Formation1
- Rott Formation1
- Sivik Formation1
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The named rock units Sieblosiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sieblosiidae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Sieblosiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
916 taxa- Stenolestes5 sites
- Coleoptera4 sites
- Lestes ceresti4 sites
- Calosoma agassizi3 sites
- Kalotermitidae3 sites
- Libellulidae3 sites
- Platycleis speciosa3 sites
- Plecia3 sites
- Tipula3 sites
- Acantholyda erythrocephala2 sites
- Apis2 sites
- Archepseudophylla fossilis2 sites
- Belostomatidae2 sites
- Bibionidae2 sites
- Calosoma ceresti2 sites
- Cercopis2 sites
- Corixidae2 sites
- Dytiscidae2 sites
- Francotermes bauzilensis2 sites
- Notonectidae2 sites
- Penthetria2 sites
- Penthetria nigra2 sites
- Plecia dubia2 sites
- Reticulitermes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Sieblosiidae, 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
16 references- Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles: Un inventaire critique12
- Phylogenetic analysis of the Cenozoic family Sieblosiidae (Insecta: Odonata), with description of new taxa from Russia, Italy and France5
- New Tertiary Fossil Odonata from France (Sieblosiidae, Lestidae, Coenagrionidae, Megapodagrionidae, Libellulidae)3
- Nouveaux Odonates fossiles du Miocène supérieur de l'Ardèche (Odonata: Sieblosiidae, Lestidae, Libellulidae, Corduliidae et Aeshnidae)2
- Two new damselflies of the genus Stenolestes (Odonata: Sieblosiidae) from the Miocene of Öhningen, Germany1
- New dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany)1
- New dragonflies and damselflies from Middle Miocene deposits in SW Bulgaria (Insecta: Odonata)1
- A new genus and species of Sieblosiidae from the Middle Miocene of Germany (Odonata: Epiproctophora)1
- Découverte d'un nouveau genre de Sieblosiidae dans le Miocène supérieur de l'Ardèche (France) (Odonata, Zygoptera, Lestoidea, Sieblosiidae)1
- Sur une nouvelle espèce d'Odonate fossile du Stampien de Cereste (Lubéron) (Odonata, Lestidae)1
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France1
- Drei neue Insektenarten aus dem Tertiär von Rott am Siebengebirge1
Each of the 34 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Sieblosiidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gaëlle Doitteau
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sieblosiidae 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 itZygoptera through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1907