Lema evanescens

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LemaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lema evanescens 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
3 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Lema evanescens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lema evanescens and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lema evanescens and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Aphaenogaster mayri2 sites
- Dolichoderus antiquus2 sites
- Formica robusta2 sites
- Liometopum miocenicum2 sites
- Miomyrmex impactus2 sites
- Protazteca capitata2 sites
- Protazteca elongata2 sites
- Protazteca quadrata2 sites
- Acalles exhumatus1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Agabus florissantensis1 site
- Alepidophora pealei1 site
- Alomatia fusca1 site
- Amara powellii1 site
- Andrena percontusa1 site
- Anomalon miocenicum1 site
- Anthonomus debilatus1 site
- Anthonomus evigilatus1 site
- Anthonomus primordius1 site
- Aphodius aboriginalis1 site
- Aphodius granarioides1 site
- Aphodius inundatus1 site
- Aphodius laminicola1 site
- Aphodius praeemptor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lema evanescens, 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- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant1
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado1
- New fossil Coleoptera from Florissant, with notes on some already described1
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
Media content1

Picture of Lema evanescens
- 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 Lema evanescens 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLema through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wickham 1910