Plagiodera lyelliana
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
- PlagioderaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Plagiodera lyelliana 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
7 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plagiodera lyelliana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plagiodera lyelliana and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Plagiodera lyelliana and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
250 taxa- Curculionidae6 sites
- Entimini6 sites
- Plecia bucklandi6 sites
- Plecia livida6 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus5 sites
- Bibio5 sites
- Bibio curtisii5 sites
- Plecia foersteri5 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides5 sites
- Bibio curtisi4 sites
- Curculionites morosus4 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio4 sites
- Protainophthalmus asperulus4 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus4 sites
- Bibio celasensis3 sites
- Bibio spectabilis3 sites
- Cassida blancheti3 sites
- Chironomidae3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
- Mycetophila confusa3 sites
- Penthetria lugens3 sites
- Penthetria nervisinuata3 sites
- Plecia3 sites
- Plecia morio3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Plagiodera lyelliana, 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
4 references- Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains Tertiaires de la France, deuxième partie, insectes fossiles d'Aix en Provence3
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France2
- Notes complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles oligocènes des gypses d'Aix-en-Provence1
- Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence1
Each of the 7 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 Plagiodera lyelliana
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Plagiodera lyelliana 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 itPlagiodera through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1856)