Dryinidae

Dryinidae is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps. Its name comes from the Greek drys for oak: Latreille named the type genus Dryinus because the first species was collected on an oak tree in Spain. The larvae are parasitoids of the nymphs and adults of Auchenorrhyncha. Dryinidae comprises over 1900 described species, distributed in 11 extant subfamilies and 57 genera.

Dryinidae

S.E. Thorpe · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
ChrysidoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 134 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 55 of 134 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesEocene — about 47 of 134 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 134 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 134 occurrencesMiocene128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 27 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 24 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 34 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences121.4 Mya20.45 Mya128 Mya12 Mya

134 occurrences of Dryinidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

134 occurrences

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

8 formations

Ola — 60.17°N, 150.49°EYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WYanigua — 19.55°N, 70.60°WDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EKizi — 45.48°N, 137.21°E

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The named rock units Dryinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 124 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dryinidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dryinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4,319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Dryinidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

44 references

Each of the 134 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. 32 further references are not listed. 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 Dryinidae

Credit
S.E. Thorpe
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChrysidoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haliday 1833