Abia

Abia is a genus of sawflies belonging to the family Cimbicidae, including several stout sawflies commonly encountered in Europe. Several species in the genus were formerly classified under the genus Zaraea, but this name is now treated as a synonym.

Abia

entomart · Attribution · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AbiinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya20.9 Mya2.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Abia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

7 occurrences

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

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°E

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The named rock units Abia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Abia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Abia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Abia, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Abia

Credit
entomart
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Abia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAbiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1817