Cretoscraptella crucifera
No picture of Cretoscraptella crucifera 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 Cretoscraptella crucifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretoscraptellaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cretoscraptella crucifera on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late 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.
Cretoscraptella crucifera and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cretoscraptella crucifera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) larvalis1 site
- Archaenosodendron angulare1 site
- Archaenosodendron cretaceum1 site
- Archaenosodendron remotidens1 site
- Attagenus coziki1 site
- Attagenus motykai1 site
- Burmostrichus brunneus1 site
- Costatomorphus cretaceus1 site
- Cretoattagenus coziki1 site
- Cretodermestes palpalis1 site
- Cretomegatoma atypica1 site
- Derolathrus abyssus1 site
- Ernobius myanmaricus1 site
- Megatominae1 site
- Melalgus cretaceus1 site
- Nicobium cretaceum1 site
- Nothattagenus secundus1 site
- Paleoendeitoma buryi1 site
- Pleuroceratos tertius1 site
- Poinarinius aladelicatus1 site
- Poinarinius antonkozlovi1 site
- Poinarinius aristovi1 site
- Poinarinius borowskii1 site
- Poinarinius burmaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cretoscraptella crucifera, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Cretoscraptella crucifera 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 Cretoscraptella crucifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretoscraptella crucifera 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 itCretoscraptella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alekseev et al. 2025