Roproniidae

Roproniidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Proctotrupoidea, of which only two genera are still extant, the others being fossils. Species are known from Eurasia and North America. At least some living species are known to parasitise the larvae of tenthredinid sawflies.

Roproniidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RopronioideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEocene168–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154.8 Mya56 Mya168 Mya46 Mya

9 occurrences of Roproniidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

9 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

6 formations

Karabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°W

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The named rock units Roproniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Roproniidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Roproniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,096 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Roproniidae, 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

9 references

Each of the 9 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 Roproniidae

Credit
threelark
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itRopronioidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bradley 1905