Syromastes coloratus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SyromastusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.8 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Syromastes coloratus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Syromastes coloratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Syromastes coloratus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Syromastes coloratus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Cassida blancheti1 site
- Cicadellites oblongus1 site
- Coreites redemtus1 site
- Corixidae1 site
- Cydnopsis haidingeri1 site
- Formica demersa1 site
- Formica primitiva1 site
- Ledophora producta1 site
- Lygaeites acutus1 site
- Lygaeites ovalis1 site
- Lygaeus dasypus1 site
- Lygaeus tinctus1 site
- Pachymerus morio1 site
- Paraphaenogaster tertiaria1 site
- Poneropsis escheri1 site
- Potamon speciosus1 site
- Syromastes buchii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Syromastes coloratus, 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
1 referenceEach 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
Media content1

Picture of Syromastes coloratus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Syromastes coloratus 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 itSyromastus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1853