Tapholyda caplani

Caplan, Alan · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- TapholydaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Tapholyda caplani on record. 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tapholyda caplani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Blattaria1 site
- Bombus vetustus1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Diptera1 site
- Eumeninae1 site
- Heteroptera1 site
- Homoptera1 site
- Nothochrysinae1 site
- Pamphiliidae1 site
- Penthetria creedensis1 site
- Trichoptera1 site
- Tylocomnus creedensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tapholyda caplani, 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 references- Fossil Hymenoptera of the Superfamily Pamphilioidea1
- A fossil sawfly from the Miocene shales near Creede, Colorado1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Tapholyda caplani
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Caplan, Alan
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Tapholyda caplani 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 itTapholyda through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cockerell 1933)