Cymatophlebia pumilio

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymatophlebiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cymatophlebia pumilio on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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 Cymatophlebia pumilio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cymatophlebia pumilio and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Cymatophlebia pumilio and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Isophlebia aspasia3 sites
- Protolindenia antiqua3 sites
- Aeschnogomphus buchi2 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis2 sites
- Cymatophlebia kuempeli2 sites
- Cymatophlebia longialata2 sites
- Eocicada microcephala2 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica2 sites
- Mesotermes heros2 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri2 sites
- Osmylites excelsa2 sites
- Parastenophlebia casta2 sites
- Prostenophlebia jurassica2 sites
- Rhamphorhynchus muensteri2 sites
- Stenophlebia amphitrite2 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei2 sites
- Urogomphus giganteus2 sites
- Actea sphinx1 site
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius1 site
- Aeschnopsis perkinsi1 site
- Aeschnopsis tischlingeri1 site
- Andrephlebia buergeri1 site
- Archaeogracilidens macer1 site
- Archegetes neuropterorum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cymatophlebia pumilio, 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 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cymatophlebia pumilio
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cymatophlebia pumilio 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 itCymatophlebia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bechly et al. 2001