Zhenia xiai
No picture of Zhenia xiai 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 Zhenia xiai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZheniaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Zhenia xiai on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Zhenia xiai and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Zhenia xiai and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
979 taxa- Alienopteridae2 sites
- Cretacimermis chironomae2 sites
- Diodontognathus papillatus2 sites
- Fangyuania xiai2 sites
- Haplosialodes liui2 sites
- Mallecupes (Mallecupes) qingqingae2 sites
- Minlagerron griphos2 sites
- Nymphavus progenitor2 sites
- Pabuonqed eulna2 sites
- Palaeopsilotreta xiai2 sites
- Phyllochrysa huangi2 sites
- Postopsyllidium rebeccae2 sites
- Protodasycerus aenigmaticus2 sites
- Psocodea2 sites
- Teyia branislav2 sites
- Yijenplatycnemis huangi2 sites
- Acalyptomerus thayerae1 site
- Acalyptopygus astriatus1 site
- Acalyptopygus brevicornis1 site
- Acalyptopygus elongatus1 site
- Acalyptopygus lingziae1 site
- Acanthoberotha cuspis1 site
- Acanthochrysa langae1 site
- Acanthocorona1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Zhenia xiai, 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
2 references- An endoparasitoid Cretaceous fly and the evolution of parasitoidism2
- The Mesozoic family Eremochaetidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in Burmese amber and relationships of Archisargoidea: Brachycera in Cretaceous Amber, Part VIII1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Zhenia xiai 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 Zhenia xiai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zhenia xiai 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 itZhenia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang et al. 2016