Vitimosphex vividus
No picture of Vitimosphex vividus 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 Vitimosphex vividus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitimosphexPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Vitimosphex vividus on record, most of them in the Early 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
1 occurrences- Early 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
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
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The named rock units Vitimosphex vividus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vitimosphex vividus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Vitimosphex vividus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Alegorius yixianus1 site
- Baisarabaeus yixianensis1 site
- Crassisorus fractus1 site
- Cretoprionus liutiaogouensis1 site
- Ilerdocossus fengningensis1 site
- Ilerdocossus hui1 site
- Lithohypna chifengensis1 site
- Liutiaogoucuna arachnoidea1 site
- Mesoderus ovatus1 site
- Mesoderus punctatus1 site
- Mesodytes rhantoides1 site
- Mongoliaeshna sinica1 site
- Nicrophorini1 site
- Protonemestrius magnus1 site
- Protoxyporus grandis1 site
- Rudiaeschna jarzembowskii1 site
- Sinahemeroscopus magnificus1 site
- Sinaktassia tangi1 site
- Sinodromeus liutiaogouensis1 site
- Stellularis1 site
- Yixianstenophlebia magnifica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Vitimosphex vividus, 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 reference- New Angarosphecidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern China1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Vitimosphex vividus 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 Vitimosphex vividus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vitimosphex vividus 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 itVitimosphex through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang et al. 2018