Silvius merychippi
No picture of Silvius merychippi 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 Silvius merychippi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SilviusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Silvius merychippi 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
2 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Silvius merychippi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Silvius merychippi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Silvius merychippi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Archiraphidia tumulata1 site
- Caliroa micrarche1 site
- Caliroa mima1 site
- Cheilosia sepultula1 site
- Chironomus scudderiellus1 site
- Cordilura exhumata1 site
- Dioctria pulveris1 site
- Dolichomyia tertiaria1 site
- Eohemichroa eophila1 site
- Gerridae1 site
- Glossina oligocenus1 site
- Glossina osborni1 site
- Oxycera contusa1 site
- Pachysomites inermis1 site
- Palaeotaxonus vetus1 site
- Paleolepidopterites destructus1 site
- Paracosmus (Paracosmus) recurrens1 site
- Plecia decapitata1 site
- Saperda florissantensis1 site
- Sciaroidea1 site
- Tenthredo (Tenthredella) oblita1 site
- Villa setosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Silvius merychippi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 Silvius merychippi 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 Silvius merychippi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Silvius merychippi 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 itSilvius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cockerell 1916)