Cheloninae

Cheloninae is a cosmopolitan subfamily of braconid parasitoid wasps.

Cheloninae

H. Dumas · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BraconidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 11 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Cheloninae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

30 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

3 formations

Bouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°E

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The named rock units Cheloninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheloninae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cheloninae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cheloninae, 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

10 references

Each of the 30 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 Cheloninae

Credit
H. Dumas
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cheloninae 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 itBraconidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nees 1816