Cimbicidae

Cimbicidae, the clubhorn sawflies, is a family of sawflies in the order Hymenoptera. There are more than 20 genera and 200 described species in Cimbicidae. Larvae are solitary herbivores.

Cimbicidae

Janet Graham · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
cimbicid sawflyPBDB
Sits inside
TenthredinoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 44 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 25 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.5–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59.24 Mya3.6 Mya63 Mya1 Mya

44 occurrences of Cimbicidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

44 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

7 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°EAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°W

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The named rock units Cimbicidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cimbicidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cimbicidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

676 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cimbicidae, 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 44 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 Cimbicidae

Credit
Janet Graham
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cimbicidae 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

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 itTenthredinoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirby 1837