Cydnus sagittifer

Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Sits inside
- CydnusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
3 occurrences of Cydnus sagittifer on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cydnus sagittifer 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.
Cydnus sagittifer and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cydnus sagittifer and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Aphidecta marginata2 sites
- Apioninae2 sites
- Chrysochloa pulchra2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Cydnus armiger2 sites
- Cydnus dignus2 sites
- Cydnus pygmaeus2 sites
- Cydnus solutus2 sites
- Cydnus tertiarius2 sites
- Eysarcoris2 sites
- Oxytelus ominosus2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Solenopsis superba2 sites
- Solenopsis valida2 sites
- Acanthosoma debile1 site
- Aeshna heterofasciata1 site
- Aeshnidae1 site
- Allactoneura veiti1 site
- Altica magna1 site
- Amphotis depressa1 site
- Anchomenus bipunctatus1 site
- Aphanus contractus1 site
- Aphrophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cydnus sagittifer, 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- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France1
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt1
- Heer, 18531
Each of the 3 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 Cydnus sagittifer
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cydnus sagittifer 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 itCydnus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1853)