Minelcana dubia
No picture of Minelcana dubia 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 Minelcana dubia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MinelcanaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 141 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Minelcana dubia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Durlston Formation · Purbeck Group1
- Lulworth Formation · Purbeck Group1
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The named rock units Minelcana dubia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Minelcana dubia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Minelcana dubia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Aeschnidiidae1 site
- Aeschnidium antiquum1 site
- Aeschnopsis jurassica1 site
- Agrionidium obscurum1 site
- Anapiptus brodiei1 site
- Anglopetalura magnifica1 site
- Apistotes purbeccensis1 site
- Araripelibellula britannica1 site
- Asuba brodiei1 site
- Bibionites priscus1 site
- Cercopidae1 site
- Chironomopsis arrogans1 site
- Chironomopsis extincta1 site
- Cicadellium pulcher1 site
- Cixioides maculatus1 site
- Coleopteron rugosostriatus1 site
- Coleopteron vetustus1 site
- Coptoclavella purbeckensis1 site
- Corydiidae1 site
- Cretalloaeschna cliffordae1 site
- Dara fossilis1 site
- Diastatopaeschnidium reneeheiko1 site
- Dintonia despectata1 site
- Diptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Minelcana dubia, 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 references- Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England1
- Die Insecten und Spinnen der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Insekten und Spinnen1
Each 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. 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 Minelcana dubia 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 Minelcana dubia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Minelcana dubia 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 itMinelcana through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Giebel 1856)