Misofaeschnidium densum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MisofaeschnidiumPBDB
- 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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Misofaeschnidium densum on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Misofaeschnidium densum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Misofaeschnidium densum and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Misofaeschnidium densum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Cymatophlebia longialata4 sites
- Actea sphinx3 sites
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius3 sites
- Chresmoda obscura3 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia3 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus3 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia3 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila3 sites
- Locustopsis germari3 sites
- Mesonepa primordialis3 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri3 sites
- Myrmicium schroeteri3 sites
- Prolystra lithographica3 sites
- Pseudohydrophilus avitus3 sites
- Pycnophlebia speciosa3 sites
- Scarabaeides deperditus3 sites
- Tarsophlebia eximia3 sites
- Aeschnogomphus buchi2 sites
- Amarodes pseudozabrus2 sites
- Anisophlebia helle2 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis2 sites
- Conexicoxa tripartita2 sites
- Elcana lithophila2 sites
- Gigantotermes excelsus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Misofaeschnidium densum, 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
4 references- Revision of the Mesozoic family Aeschnidiidae (Odonata: Anisoptera)1
- Libellen aus dem Nusplinger Plattenkalk (Oberjura, Ober-Kimmeridgium, Württemberg)1
- Fossil insects from the Tithonian "Solnhofener Plattenkalke" in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna1
- Die Insecten aus dem lithographischen Schiefer1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Misofaeschnidium densum
- 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 Misofaeschnidium densum 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.
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What may have been alongside itMisofaeschnidium through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hagen 1862)