Phryganea obsoleta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhryganeaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Phryganea obsoleta on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 Phryganea obsoleta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phryganea obsoleta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Phryganea obsoleta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
306 taxa- Diptera2 sites
- Acidota crenata1 site
- Aclypea opaca1 site
- Aegialia (Psammoporus) sabuleti1 site
- Aeshnidae1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) arcticus1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) congener1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) sturmii1 site
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) bipustulatus1 site
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) nebulosus1 site
- Agonum sahlbergi1 site
- Agonum sexpunctatum1 site
- Agonum versutum1 site
- Amara1 site
- Amara (Cyrtonotus) torrida1 site
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli1 site
- Amara erratica1 site
- Amara interstitialis1 site
- Amara municipalis1 site
- Anisoptera1 site
- Anotylus gibbulus1 site
- Antherophagus pallens1 site
- Anthicus1 site
- Aphaenogaster1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phryganea obsoleta, 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- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
- Die Insektenfauna des Mainzer Hydrobienkalks1
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 content1
Picture of Phryganea obsoleta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phryganea obsoleta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhryganea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hagen 1864)