Coleopteron

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColeopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 8 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous207–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–199 Mya — about 8 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201.4 Mya132.6 Mya207 Mya124 Mya

27 occurrences of Coleopteron 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

27 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

10 formations

Insektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLilstock — 51.95°N, 2.20°WLilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WGreat Oolite — 51.93°N, 1.78°WGreat Oolite — 51.89°N, 1.95°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EWestbury Shales — 51.83°N, 2.41°WWhitby Mudstone — 52.01°N, 1.99°WWestbury — 54.13°N, 0.78°WKota — 25.18°N, 75.83°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°W

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The named rock units Coleopteron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coleopteron and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Coleopteron, 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

Each of the 27 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 Coleopteron 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 Coleopteron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Coleopteron was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itColeoptera through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906