Cerbia
Pandesma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.

Tonton Bernardo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cerbia on record, most of them in the Early 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
2 occurrences- Early 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Cerbia 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.
Cerbia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cerbia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Apteodinium1 site
- Astacolus1 site
- Batioladinium longicornutum1 site
- Cassiculosphaeridia magna1 site
- Chlamydophorella1 site
- Circulodinium1 site
- Cribroperidinium1 site
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)1 site
- Cyclonephelium1 site
- Dichotomites1 site
- Geinitzinita1 site
- Globulina1 site
- Glomospirella1 site
- Gochteodinia villosa1 site
- Gongylodinium acineum1 site
- Gonyaulacysta1 site
- Heslertonia1 site
- Hystrichodinium pulchrum1 site
- Kleithriasphaeridium1 site
- Lenticulina1 site
- Lenticulina munsteri1 site
- Lithodinia1 site
- Muderongia simplex1 site
- Nikitinoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cerbia, 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- Palynofacies analysis and palynology of the Agua de la Mula Member (Agrio Formation) in a sequence stratigraphy framework, Lower Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin, Argentina1
- Distribution of ammonites, foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts in the Lower Cretaceous reference sections of the Khatanga Basin, and Boreal Valanginian biogeography1
Each of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Cerbia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Tonton Bernardo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cerbia 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pandesma”
- 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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Below 1981