Scolebythidae

The Scolebythidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea. These chrysidoid wasps are found in Africa, Australia, the Neotropics, north China, Thailand and Fiji. They are parasites on larvae of Cerambycidae and Ptinidae.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 30 occurrencesMiocene128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 7 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121.4 Mya20.45 Mya128 Mya12 Mya

30 occurrences of Scolebythidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

30 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

3 formations

Escucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°E

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The named rock units Scolebythidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scolebythidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Scolebythidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,623 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Scolebythidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 30 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

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No picture of Scolebythidae 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 Scolebythidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scolebythidae 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

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 itChrysidoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans 1963