Osmylidia
No picture of Osmylidia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Osmylidia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtosmylinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Osmylidia 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
10 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
4 formations
- Florissant Formation4
- Klondike Mountain Formation1
- Tranquille Formation · Kamloops Group1
- Green River Formation1
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The named rock units Osmylidia 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.
Osmylidia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Osmylidia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
988 taxa- Ablator triguttatus2 sites
- Agabus florissantensis2 sites
- Amara powellii2 sites
- Aphaenogaster mayri2 sites
- Aphodius granarioides2 sites
- Apidae2 sites
- Archaea paradoxa2 sites
- Ataenius patescens2 sites
- Bibio wickhami2 sites
- Brachycera2 sites
- Bradoponera meieri2 sites
- Bruchus exhumatus2 sites
- Carabidae2 sites
- Cardiophorus lithographus2 sites
- Carebara antiqua2 sites
- Clostes priscus2 sites
- Clya obscura2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculio minusculus2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Dysagrionites2 sites
- Entimini2 sites
- Evopes veneratus2 sites
- Formica robusta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Osmylidia, 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
6 references- New Protosmylinae (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) from the early Eocene of western North America, with taxonomic remarks5
- New and little known insects from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado1
- Some fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado1
- Fossil Osmylidae (Neuroptera) in America1
- The Tertiary Insects of North America1
- Die im Bernstein befindlichen Neuropteren der Vorwelt1
Each of the 10 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 Osmylidia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Osmylidia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Osmylidia 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 itProtosmylinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cockerell 1908