Venablesia
No picture of Venablesia 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 Venablesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DorcatominaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Venablesia 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
3 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 Venablesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venablesia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Venablesia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Blastophagus1 site
- Camptorrhinites1 site
- Camptorrhinites orarius1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Curculionidae1 site
- Dromilites simplex1 site
- Erirrhinites1 site
- Erirrhinites bognorensis1 site
- Korystina gracilis1 site
- Lutago fetosus1 site
- Lutago nanus1 site
- Onthophagus1 site
- Pactopus avitus1 site
- Pentatomidae1 site
- Pissodites argillosus1 site
- Potergites senectus1 site
- Ptinidae1 site
- Saprosites cascus1 site
- Taylorius litoralis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Venablesia, 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- Beetles from the London Clay (Eocene) of Bognor Regis, Sussex2
- Fossil insects from the London Clay (early Eocene) of southern England1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Venablesia 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 Venablesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venablesia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDorcatominae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Britton 1960