Pimpla saussurei
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
- PimplaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pimpla saussurei on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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 Pimpla saussurei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pimpla saussurei and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pimpla saussurei and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Aphanus murchisonae2 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus2 sites
- Bibio2 sites
- Bibio curtisii2 sites
- Cassida blancheti2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Diniella fasciata2 sites
- Formicidae2 sites
- Gnoriste meigeniana2 sites
- Heterogaster antiquus2 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio2 sites
- Lasius occultatus2 sites
- Mycetophila morio2 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana2 sites
- Plecia bucklandi2 sites
- Plecia livida2 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides2 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus2 sites
- Aphanus dilatatus1 site
- Aphidoidea1 site
- Apis1 site
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi1 site
- Argiinae1 site
- Attoides eresiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pimpla saussurei, 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 France1
- Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pimpla saussurei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pimpla saussurei 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 itPimpla through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1856