Proctotrupidae

Proctotrupidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Proctotrupoidea. There are about 400 species in more than 30 genera in Proctotrupidae, found throughout most of the world.

Proctotrupidae

Kolyada, Victor · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ProctotrupoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 49 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 49 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 49 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 49 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 49 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 8 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 20 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141 Mya27.3 Mya146 Mya21 Mya

49 occurrences of Proctotrupidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

49 occurrences

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

9 formations

Yixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°W

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The named rock units Proctotrupidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proctotrupidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Proctotrupidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,826 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Proctotrupidae, 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

23 references

Each of the 49 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Proctotrupidae

Credit
Kolyada, Victor
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proctotrupidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProctotrupoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802