Delopsocus elongatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DelopsocusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Delopsocus elongatus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Wellington Formation · Cimarron Group7
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The named rock units Delopsocus elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Delopsocus elongatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Delopsocus elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Artinska clara6 sites
- Delopterum minutum6 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum6 sites
- Lemmatophora typa6 sites
- Lisca minuta6 sites
- Artinska ovata5 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum5 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum5 sites
- Permopsylla americana5 sites
- Phenopterum elongatum5 sites
- Protereisma latum5 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari4 sites
- Delopsocus latus4 sites
- Lecorium elongatum4 sites
- Misthodotes obtusus4 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta4 sites
- Parablattelytron subincisum4 sites
- Permoberotha villosa4 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis4 sites
- Permoraphidia americana4 sites
- Probnis speciosa4 sites
- Protelytron permianum4 sites
- Protereisma arcuatum4 sites
- Protereisma permianum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Delopsocus elongatus, 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- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera3
- The Asthenohymen-Delopterum Bed, A New Leonardian Insect Horizon in the Wellington of Kansas and Oklahoma1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria1
- Kansas Permian Insects, Part 12: The Family Delopteridae, with a Discussion of its Ordinal Position1
- Types of Permian Insects, Part III: Megasecoptera, Orycloblattinidae and Protorthoptera1
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 Delopsocus elongatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Delopsocus elongatus 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.
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What may have been alongside itDelopsocus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sellards 1909)