Electroembia antiqua

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElectroembiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Electroembia antiqua on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Electroembia antiqua and its relatives
EoceneWhere Electroembia antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
489 taxa- Archipseudophasmatidae2 sites
- Eomortoniellus handlirschi2 sites
- Mindarus magnus2 sites
- Palaeosiphon hirsutum2 sites
- Reticulitermes antiquus2 sites
- Termopsis bremii2 sites
- Trichogryllus macrocercus2 sites
- Zygoptera2 sites
- Aberrokorynetes abludens1 site
- Ablator triguttatus1 site
- Acartophthalmites tertiaria1 site
- Achilidae1 site
- Adorator hispidus1 site
- Agelena tabida1 site
- Allacrotelsa dubia1 site
- Allarithmia palpata1 site
- Allothrombium clavipes1 site
- Allotrichia succinica1 site
- Amphientomum paradoxum1 site
- Anaspis1 site
- Anaspis (Anaspis) longispina1 site
- Anyphaena fuscata1 site
- Anystis venustula1 site
- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Electroembia antiqua, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 Electroembia antiqua
- 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 Electroembia antiqua 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 itElectroembia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pictet and Hagen 1856)