Serphites pygmaeus
No picture of Serphites pygmaeus 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 Serphites pygmaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerphitesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Serphites pygmaeus on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group3
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The named rock units Serphites pygmaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Serphites pygmaeus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Serphites pygmaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Popovophysa entzmingeri2 sites
- Serphites bruesi2 sites
- Serphites hynemani2 sites
- Serphites paradoxus2 sites
- Albertaphis longirostris1 site
- Albertoberotha leuckorum1 site
- Albertocryptus dossenus1 site
- Anteucoila delicia1 site
- Atriculicoides1 site
- Atriculicoides globosus1 site
- Calgariaphis unguifera1 site
- Campaniaphis albertae1 site
- Canadaorchestina albertensis1 site
- Canadaphis carpenteri1 site
- Canadopeza biacrosticha1 site
- Ceratopogonidae1 site
- Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis1 site
- Cleptinae1 site
- Conostigmus cavannus1 site
- Cretaceogaster pygmaeus1 site
- Cretaceomira phalanx1 site
- Cretamyzus pikei1 site
- Culicoides1 site
- Culicoides filipalpis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Serphites pygmaeus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Serphites pygmaeus 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 Serphites pygmaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Serphites pygmaeus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSerphites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McKellar and Engel 2011