Campterophlebia

Campterophlebia is an extinct genus of prehistoric dragonflies in the family Campterophlebiidae. The species C. elegans is from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany. It is the largest Early Jurassic flying insect, with a wing over 7.31 cm length and 1.73 cm width.

No picture of Campterophlebia 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 Campterophlebia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CampterophlebiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Odonata
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata

Time the record covers

At most 9.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Campterophlebia on record, most of them in the Early 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

2 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

1 formation

Posidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°E

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The named rock units Campterophlebia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Campterophlebia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Campterophlebia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Campterophlebia, 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

2 references

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 content0

No picture of Campterophlebia 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 Campterophlebia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Campterophlebia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bode 1905