Gomphidae

Gomphidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
clubtail dragonflyPBDB
Sits inside
GomphidaPBDB
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 least 164 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 129 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 35 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 35 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences165.3 Mya774 ka172 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Gomphidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

35 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

14 formations

Yixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WHannuoba — 42.12°N, 117.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ETaunton Limestone — 51.86°N, 1.43°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°ELa Huérguina — 40.13°N, 2.01°WDabeigou — 42.25°N, 117.79°EMühldorf — 46.80°N, 14.81°EEnspel — 50.61°N, 7.89°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°E

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The named rock units Gomphidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gomphidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gomphidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Gomphidae, 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

29 references

Each of the 35 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. 17 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 Gomphidae

Credit
fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gomphidae 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 itGomphida through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rambur 1842