Mantohelea
No picture of Mantohelea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mantohelea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratopogoniniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
9 occurrences of Mantohelea 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
9 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.
Mantohelea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mantohelea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,167 taxa- Monogedania clunipes5 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus4 sites
- Bradoponera meieri4 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis4 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti4 sites
- Culicoides speciosus4 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa4 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa4 sites
- Forcipomyia4 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi4 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri4 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea4 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea4 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi4 sites
- Prenolepis henschei4 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini4 sites
- Serromyia4 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata4 sites
- Strieremaeus illibatus4 sites
- Tetraponera simplex4 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi4 sites
- Attagenus hoffeinsorum3 sites
- Atyphohelea cothurnata3 sites
- Ceratopogon3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mantohelea, 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
7 references- First descriptions of males from Eocene Baltic Amber in the fossil genus Mantohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)2
- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber2
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Cambay amber indicate that the Eocene fauna of the Indian subcontinent was not isolated1
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Fushun amber reveal further biotic links between Asia and Europe during the Eocene1
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine)1
- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber1
- Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Mantohelea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mantohelea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mantohelea 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCeratopogonini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Szadziewski 1988