Cossonus meriani
No picture of Cossonus meriani was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cossonus meriani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CossonusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cossonus meriani on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cossonus meriani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cossonus meriani and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cossonus meriani and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Polyphaga2 sites
- Acilius oeningensis1 site
- Aeshna theobaldi1 site
- Aeshna tyche1 site
- Anisops1 site
- Anisoptera1 site
- Anthophorites veterana1 site
- Anthribinae1 site
- Aphodius anteactus1 site
- Aphrophora spumarioides1 site
- Aphtona puncticollis1 site
- Apteropeda grossa1 site
- Asilus deperditus1 site
- Badister prodromus1 site
- Berytopsis femoralis1 site
- Bibio brevis1 site
- Bibio fusiformis1 site
- Bibio moestus1 site
- Bibionidae1 site
- Brachinus primordialis1 site
- Buprestites oeningensis1 site
- Camponotites lignitus1 site
- Capnodis puncticollis1 site
- Cassida dufouri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cossonus meriani, 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
2 references- Note Complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles des Cinérites Pliocènes du Lac Chambon (Puy-de-Dôme)1
- Heer, 18471
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Cossonus meriani was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cossonus meriani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cossonus meriani 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCossonus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1847