Ypresiomyrma rebekkae

Madsen, Henrik · CC BY 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
- YpresiomyrmaPBDB
- 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 Ypresiomyrma rebekkae 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ypresiomyrma rebekkae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ypresiomyrma rebekkae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ypresiomyrma rebekkae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Gryllidae2 sites
- Palaeogerris furensis2 sites
- Danowhetaksa rusti1 site
- Eocenometra longicornis1 site
- Eodysagrion mikkelseni1 site
- Palaeogerris grandis1 site
- Palaeometra madseni1 site
- Proeneopterotrypus danicus1 site
- Tipula pachyvena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ypresiomyrma rebekkae, 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 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. 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 Ypresiomyrma rebekkae
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Madsen, Henrik
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ypresiomyrma rebekkae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itYpresiomyrma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rust and Andersen 1999)