Stethynium

Huber JT, Islam N (2017) Introduction to the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) of Bangladesh. ZooKeys 675: 75-96. https://doi.o… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MymaridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Stethynium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Stethynium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Stethynium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Anaphes1 site
- Camptoptera1 site
- Cinetus balticus1 site
- Idris ilonkae1 site
- Lagynodes pseudocarinatus1 site
- Lepidoptera1 site
- Macroteleia renatae1 site
- Mimalaptus1 site
- Oxyserphus obsolescens1 site
- Tineosemopsis decurtatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stethynium, 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
2 references- Compression fossil Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) from Kishenehn oil shales, with description of two new genera and review of Tertiary amber genera1
- Stethynium townesi sp. n. from the Baltic Oligocene (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae)1
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. 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 Stethynium
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Huber JT, Islam N (2017) Introduction to the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) of Bangladesh. ZooKeys 675: 75-96. https://doi.o…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stethynium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMymaridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Enock 1909