Ismaridae

Ismaridae is a family of wasps belonging to the order Hymenoptera. It contains the singular relictual genus Ismarus, which has about 50 known species. All species for which the biology is known appear to be hyperparasitoids that parasitize Dryinidae.

Ismaridae

John Curtis · 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
DiaprioideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya100.5 Mya120.1 Mya93.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Ismaridae on record. 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

4 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

1 formation

Toriakeura — 35.70°N, 140.86°E

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The named rock units Ismaridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ismaridae, 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

Each 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. 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 Ismaridae

Credit
John Curtis
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ismaridae 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.

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 itDiaprioidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thomson 1858)