Sphex bischoffi
No picture of Sphex bischoffi 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 Sphex bischoffi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphexPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.8 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Sphex bischoffi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Sphex bischoffi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphex bischoffi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sphex bischoffi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Acrididae1 site
- Aeshnidae1 site
- Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri1 site
- Araneae1 site
- Catantopinae1 site
- Elateridae1 site
- Gryllotalpa miocaenica1 site
- Hydrochara caraboides1 site
- Hydrophilus kuntzeni1 site
- Isopoda1 site
- Julidae1 site
- Julus suevicus1 site
- Lepidoptera1 site
- Lixus1 site
- Mantis boettingensis1 site
- Miocaenacris soergeli1 site
- Mioscorpio zeuneri1 site
- Nymphalites1 site
- Otiorrhynchus boettingensis1 site
- Protocatantops gracilis1 site
- Rammea laticeps1 site
- Syrphopsis globosiceps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sphex bischoffi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Sphex bischoffi 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 Sphex bischoffi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphex bischoffi 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 itSphex through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zeuner 1931