Allaboilus gigantus

Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai) · CC BY-SA 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
- AllaboilusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Allaboilus gigantus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Allaboilus gigantus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allaboilus gigantus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Allaboilus gigantus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
535 taxa- Juraxymyia fossilis3 sites
- Lasiosyne euglyphea3 sites
- Liassophyllum caii3 sites
- Parapsocus pectinatus3 sites
- Aboilus stratosus2 sites
- Aristoviblattogryllus minor2 sites
- Ashangopsis daohugouensis2 sites
- Circulaboilus aureus2 sites
- Crenoptychoptera decorosa2 sites
- Desmatus ponomarenkoi2 sites
- Eoiocossus validus2 sites
- Eoptychopterina elenae2 sites
- Hirtaprosbole erromera2 sites
- Itaphlebia decorosa2 sites
- Lasiosyne daohugouensis2 sites
- Lasiosyne fedorenkoi2 sites
- Lasiosyne gratiosa2 sites
- Lasiosyne quadricollis2 sites
- Latocupes collaris2 sites
- Martynovocossus punctulosus2 sites
- Mesokristensenia sinica2 sites
- Novaboilus multifurcatus2 sites
- Orthophlebia extensa2 sites
- Paradesmatus baiae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Allaboilus gigantus, 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
6 references- Revision and new taxa of fossil Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)2
- High acoustic diversity and behavioral complexity of katydids in the Mesozoic soundscape1
- The Jurassic orthopteran Allaboilus gigantus Ren and Meng, 2006 (Prophalangopsidae) from Beipiao, northeast China and its biostratigraphical significance1
- New fossil prophalangopsids from China (Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae, Aboilinae)1
- New prophalangopsids from late Mesozoic of China (Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae, Aboilinae)1
- New Jurassic protaboilins from China (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae, Protaboilinae)1
Each of the 7 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 Allaboilus gigantus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Allaboilus gigantus 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 itAllaboilus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ren and Meng 2006