Diegopteryx pulcherrima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiegopteryxPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
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.
3 occurrences of Diegopteryx pulcherrima 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
3 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 Group3
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The named rock units Diegopteryx pulcherrima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diegopteryx pulcherrima and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Diegopteryx pulcherrima and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Araripechrysa magnifica1 site
- Araripegomphus ismari1 site
- Araripegryllus1 site
- Araripegryllus camposae1 site
- Araripegryllus femininus1 site
- Araripegryllus megacephalus1 site
- Araripegryllus nanus1 site
- Araripegryllus serrilhatus1 site
- Araripegryllus spinosus1 site
- Araripelocusta brevis1 site
- Araripelocusta longinota1 site
- Araripemyrmecophilops gracilis1 site
- Araripeneura crassatella1 site
- Araripeneura damianii1 site
- Araripeneura gracilis1 site
- Araripeneura regia1 site
- Araripephasma reliquum1 site
- Babinskaia pulchra1 site
- Baisopardus conani1 site
- Baissopteridae1 site
- Blittersdorffia dicotomica1 site
- Blittersdorffia evanescens1 site
- Brasiliupanshania cretacica1 site
- Caldasia cretacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diegopteryx pulcherrima, 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- Taxonomic reassessment of the genera Blittersdorffia and Diegopteryx (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation with the description of three new species1
- New neuropteran insects (Osmylidae, Palaeoleontidae, Araripeneuridae and Psychopsidae) from the Santana Formation, Early Cretaceous NE Brazil1
- Neurópteros (Insecta, Planipennia) da Formação Santana (Cretáceo Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, Nordeste do Brasil. VIII - descrição de novos taxa de Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae e Nemopteridadae1
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
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No picture of Diegopteryx pulcherrima 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 Diegopteryx pulcherrima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diegopteryx pulcherrima 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 itDiegopteryx through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1997)