Aspidothoracidae

Aspidothorax maculatus Brongniart, 1894, a relative of Aspidothoracidae — not Aspidothoracidae itself

Not Aspidothoracidae. This is Aspidothorax maculatus Brongniart, 1894, a relative — both are Aspidothoracidae.

Fayol, Henri · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
MegasecopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 314.6 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPermian316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–299 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307.4 Mya274.4 Mya315.6 Mya265.9 Mya

6 occurrences of Aspidothoracidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

6 occurrences

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

2 formations

Commentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°EFlöz Zweibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°E

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The named rock units Aspidothoracidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aspidothoracidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aspidothoracidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aspidothoracidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Aspidothorax maculatus Brongniart, 1894

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fayol, Henri
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aspidothoracidae 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 itMegasecoptera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1919