Coenagrionidae

Coenagrionidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
narrow-winged damselflyPBDB
Sits inside
CoenagrionoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Odonata
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 210 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 29 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–8.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.1–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences113.2 Mya1.4 Mya122 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Coenagrionidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

29 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

10 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WBautista — 33.80°N, 116.89°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WMaíz Gordo — 24.27°S, 64.42°W

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The named rock units Coenagrionidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coenagrionidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Coenagrionidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

932 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Coenagrionidae, 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

21 references

Each of the 29 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. 9 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 Coenagrionidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Coenagrionidae 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.

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What may have been alongside itCoenagrionoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirby 1890