Chresmoda

Chresmoda is an extinct genus of insects within the family Chresmodidae.

Chresmoda

Hectonichus · 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
ChresmodidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 11 of 25 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 25 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 25 occurrencesLate Cretaceous150–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 5 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145.06 Mya100.5 Mya150 Mya93 Mya

25 occurrences of Chresmoda 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

25 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

8 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EDabeigou — 41.20°N, 116.65°ESannine — 34.06°N, 35.69°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Chresmoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chresmoda and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Chresmoda and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

661 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Chresmoda, 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

18 references

Each of the 25 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. 6 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 Chresmoda

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chresmoda 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 itChresmodidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germar 1839