Cratoelcana zessini
No picture of Cratoelcana zessini 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 Cratoelcana zessini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CratoelcanaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Cratoelcana zessini 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
11 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Crato Formation · Santana Group11
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The named rock units Cratoelcana zessini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cratoelcana zessini and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cratoelcana zessini and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
275 taxa- Panorpidium damianii8 sites
- Cearagrylloides perforatorius5 sites
- Araripegryllus4 sites
- Araripegryllus femininus4 sites
- Caririgryllus elongatus4 sites
- Caririgryllus pilosus4 sites
- Gondwanelcana brasiliensis4 sites
- Araripegryllus camposae3 sites
- Araripegryllus nanus3 sites
- Araripegryllus serrilhatus3 sites
- Araripegryllus spinosus3 sites
- Araripeneura damianii3 sites
- Beurlenia araripensis3 sites
- Caririchrysa criptovenata3 sites
- Caririgryllus arthaudi3 sites
- Cearagrylloides microcephalus3 sites
- Cearagryllus3 sites
- Mesembrelcana rasnitsyni3 sites
- Paracearagryllus poliacanthus3 sites
- Parasabatinca caldasae3 sites
- Protoischnurus axelrodorum3 sites
- Pseudonymphes araripensis3 sites
- Araripegryllus megacephalus2 sites
- Araripeneura crassatella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cratoelcana zessini, 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- Sistemática dos Ensifera (Insecta, Orthopteroida) da formação Santana, Cretáceo Inferior do Nordeste do Brasil6
- Revision of the lagoon crickets (Elcanidae: Insecta: Orthoptera) of the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil with the description of new taxa4
- High fidelity preservation of fossil insects from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil1
Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cratoelcana zessini 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 Cratoelcana zessini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cratoelcana zessini 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.
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What may have been alongside itCratoelcana through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martins-Neto 1991