Siphloplecton

Siphloplecton is a genus of cleftfooted minnow mayflies in the family Metretopodidae. There are about 15 described species in Siphloplecton.

Siphloplecton

Godunko RJ, Neumann C, Staniczek AH (2019) Revision of fossil Metretopodidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) in Baltic amber… · 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
MetretopodidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Siphloplecton 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

23 occurrences

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.

Siphloplecton and its relatives

Eocene

Where Siphloplecton and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Siphloplecton, 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

5 references

Each of the 23 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 Siphloplecton

Credit
Godunko RJ, Neumann C, Staniczek AH (2019) Revision of fossil Metretopodidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) in Baltic amber…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Siphloplecton 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMetretopodidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clemens 1915