Protocyrtus mongolicus
No picture of Protocyrtus mongolicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protocyrtus mongolicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtocyrtusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protocyrtus mongolicus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Gurvan-Eren Formation1
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
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The named rock units Protocyrtus mongolicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protocyrtus mongolicus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Protocyrtus mongolicus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Alloserphus saxosus1 site
- Amphoxyne darbiensis1 site
- Angarogyrus mongolicus1 site
- Angarosphex pallidus1 site
- Anisopodoidea1 site
- Antemnacrassa punctata1 site
- Apocrita1 site
- Baissodes longus1 site
- Bibionomorpha1 site
- Bombyliidae1 site
- Buprestoidea1 site
- Chironomaptera1 site
- Chironomaptera gobiensis1 site
- Chironomaptera vesca1 site
- Clavicoris cretaceus1 site
- Coptoclavella striata1 site
- Coptoclavella vittata1 site
- Cordorabus striatus1 site
- Coriopachys1 site
- Corixonecta hosbayari1 site
- Corizites darbiensis1 site
- Cretacoris gurvanicus1 site
- Cretevania pristina1 site
- Cretolimonia popovi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protocyrtus mongolicus, 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- Proctotrupoid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province1
- Wasps. Vespida (=Hymenoptera), in Nasekomye v rannemelovykh ekosistemakh zapadnoy Mongolii1
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
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No picture of Protocyrtus mongolicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protocyrtus mongolicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protocyrtus mongolicus 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.
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What may have been alongside itProtocyrtus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rasnitsyn 1986)