Balticophasma
No picture of Balticophasma 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 Balticophasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BalticophasmatiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Balticophasma 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
15 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.
Balticophasma and its relatives
EoceneWhere Balticophasma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,762 taxa- Archipseudophasmatidae7 sites
- Archipseudophasmatinae6 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini6 sites
- Pseudoperla6 sites
- Raptophasma kerneggeri6 sites
- Adorator hispidus5 sites
- Archipseudophasma5 sites
- Ablator triguttatus4 sites
- Archaea paradoxa4 sites
- Kroeberiella pinguis4 sites
- Nothorhina granulicollis4 sites
- Protoorthobula bifida4 sites
- Spatiator praeceps4 sites
- Anniculus balticus3 sites
- Balticophasmatini3 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum3 sites
- Clya obscura3 sites
- Cupes groehni3 sites
- Cupes rohdendorfi3 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata3 sites
- Dipluridae3 sites
- Eomatachia latifrons3 sites
- Eomiagrammopes3 sites
- Eomiagrammopes spinipes3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Balticophasma, 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- The Phasmatodea and Raptophasma n. gen., Orthoptera incertae sedis, in Baltic amber (Insecta: Orthoptera)13
- New fossil nematodes in Dominican and Baltic amber1
- Die im Bernstein befindlichen Hemipteren und Orthopteren der Vorwelt1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Balticophasma 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 Balticophasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balticophasma 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBalticophasmatini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zompro 2001