Palaeaeschna vidali
No picture of Palaeaeschna vidali 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 Palaeaeschna vidali, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeaeschnaPBDB
- 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 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Palaeaeschna vidali 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
3 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
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The named rock units Palaeaeschna vidali has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeaeschna vidali and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Palaeaeschna vidali and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Mesoblattina colominasi3 sites
- Cretaholocompsa montsecana2 sites
- Hirmoneura richterae2 sites
- Meiatermes bertrani2 sites
- Nogueroblatta fontllongae2 sites
- Nogueroblatta nana2 sites
- Pachypsyche vidali2 sites
- Acocephalites breddini1 site
- Aeschnidiidae1 site
- Angarosphex penyalveri1 site
- Anura1 site
- Apocrita1 site
- Bethylidae1 site
- Bolbonectus lithographicus1 site
- Brachilatus oculatus1 site
- Chresmoda aquatica1 site
- Cionocoleus longicapitis1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Conexicoxa martinclosas1 site
- Coptoclavella inexpecta1 site
- Cretaraneus vilaltae1 site
- Cretobestiola hispanica1 site
- Cretochoragus pygmaeus1 site
- Cretonanophyes rugosithorax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palaeaeschna vidali, 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- Insectos del Cretácico inferior de Santa Maria de Meià (Lleida): colleción Lluís Marià Vidal i Carreras2
- Un blátido y una larva de odonato del Kimeridgense de la Sierra del Montsech (Lérida)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Palaeaeschna vidali 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 Palaeaeschna vidali, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeaeschna vidali 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 itPalaeaeschna through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meunier 1914