Babinskaiidae

Babinskaiidae is an extinct family of neuropterans known from the Cretaceous period of South America and Asia. They are part of the superfamily Myrmeleontoidea. Their distinguishing characters include: "long filiform antennae, narrowly elongated wings, with features such as trichosors, and presectorial cross veins present in both wings, and absence of forewing oblique vein". They are considered transitional between Nymphidae and more derived myrmeleontodoids, such as antlions.

Babinskaiidae

Hu et al 2018 · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MyrmeleontoideaPBDB
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 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113.2 Mya100.5 Mya122 Mya93.3 Mya

24 occurrences of Babinskaiidae on record. 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

24 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

2 formations

Crato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°E

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The named rock units Babinskaiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Babinskaiidae, 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

16 references

Each of the 24 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Babinskaiidae

Credit
Hu et al 2018
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Babinskaiidae 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 itMyrmeleontoidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989)