Plagiolepis klinsmanni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlagiolepisPBDB
- 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.
12 occurrences of Plagiolepis klinsmanni 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
12 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.
Plagiolepis klinsmanni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Plagiolepis klinsmanni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,777 taxa- Gesomyrmex hoernesi10 sites
- Prenolepis henschei10 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi10 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti9 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri9 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea9 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea9 sites
- Tetraponera simplex9 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei8 sites
- Lype sericea8 sites
- Tetraponera ocellata8 sites
- Formica flori7 sites
- Holocentropus affinis7 sites
- Monogedania clunipes7 sites
- Yantaromyrmex constrictus7 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus6 sites
- Bradoponera meieri6 sites
- Ceratopogon6 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis6 sites
- Culicoides speciosus6 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius6 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus6 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa6 sites
- Erotesis aequalis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Plagiolepis klinsmanni, 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
5 references- Ants of the genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Late Eocene ambers of Europe5
- Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins3
- The Ants of the Baltic Amber2
- Formica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber1
- Murav'i (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Rovenskogo yantarya1
Each of the 12 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 Plagiolepis klinsmanni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Plagiolepis klinsmanni 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 itPlagiolepis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mayr 1868