Penthetria longiventris
Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PenthetriaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Penthetria longiventris 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Penthetria longiventris 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.
Penthetria longiventris and its relatives
EoceneWhere Penthetria longiventris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Bibio celasensis3 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Penthetria graciliventris2 sites
- Plecia angustiventris2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Acheta marioni1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Acridinae1 site
- Anomalon afflictum1 site
- Aphodius theobaldi1 site
- Apion1 site
- Bibionidae1 site
- Corimaliini1 site
- Dilophus1 site
- Dolichoderus oviformis1 site
- Dytiscus1 site
- Enochrus striatus1 site
- Ensifera1 site
- Entiminae1 site
- Eocenostenus fossilis1 site
- Formica1 site
- Harpalus oustaleti1 site
- Heteroptera1 site
- Huguenotermes septimaniensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Penthetria longiventris, 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- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France3
- Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from French Oligocene deposits1
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. 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 content1
Picture of Penthetria longiventris
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Penthetria longiventris 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 itPenthetria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Theobald 1937)