Corixa
Corixa is a genus of aquatic bugs in the family Corixidae. The fossil species C. elegans is from the Rott Formation in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Piet Spaans · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
- CorixiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Corixa on record. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene63%
- Miocene25%
- Pleistocene13%
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
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The named rock units Corixa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
740 taxa- Allodahlia shanwangensis2 sites
- Bibio tranopterus2 sites
- Bibio varineurus2 sites
- Calosoma maderae2 sites
- Camponotites ambon2 sites
- Camponotites shanwangensis2 sites
- Dascillus flatus2 sites
- Dascillus shandongianus2 sites
- Dolichoderus lacinius2 sites
- Epiaeschna lucida2 sites
- Formica ovala2 sites
- Gerris2 sites
- Gerstaeckerus alviolatus2 sites
- Heptagenia2 sites
- Hylobius plenus2 sites
- Laccotrephes robustus2 sites
- Limois shanwangensis2 sites
- Plecia villosa2 sites
- Tettigoniidae2 sites
- Trichoptera2 sites
- Abia maculosa1 site
- Acalyptratae1 site
- Acanthocryptus bischoffi1 site
- Acidota crenata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Corixa, 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
3 references- Alte und neue Hydrocorisae (Wasserwanzen) aus dem Oberoligocan von Rott5
- Zhang, 19892
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
Each of the 8 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 Corixa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Piet Spaans
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corixa 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, “Corixa”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCorixini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1762