Aphanus murchisonae
No picture of Aphanus murchisonae 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 Aphanus murchisonae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AphanusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Aphanus murchisonae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Aphanus murchisonae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aphanus murchisonae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Aphanus murchisonae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Aphanus pulchellus5 sites
- Plecia bucklandi5 sites
- Plecia livida4 sites
- Bibio curtisii3 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Heterogaster antiquus3 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio3 sites
- Mycetophila morio3 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides3 sites
- Aphrophora coquandi2 sites
- Bibio2 sites
- Bibio curtisi2 sites
- Bibio spectabilis2 sites
- Brachycera2 sites
- Cassida blancheti2 sites
- Chrysops2 sites
- Cleonini2 sites
- Cydnus meunieri2 sites
- Diniella fasciata2 sites
- Entimini2 sites
- Formica2 sites
- Gnoriste meigeniana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aphanus murchisonae, 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
3 references- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France4
- Heer, 18534
- Observations on the fossil insects of Aix in Provence, with descriptions and figures of three species1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Aphanus murchisonae 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 Aphanus murchisonae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aphanus murchisonae 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 itAphanus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1853)