Dictyoptera

Dictyoptera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 316 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 585 of 1938 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 104 of 1938 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1938 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 25 of 1938 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 36 of 1938 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 37 of 1938 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 1938 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 60 of 1938 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 367 of 1938 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 176 of 1938 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 1938 occurrencesEocene — about 220 of 1938 occurrencesOligocene — about 43 of 1938 occurrencesMiocene — about 209 of 1938 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 1938 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 1938 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 290 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 319 occurrences297–286 Mya — about 53 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 10 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–253 Mya — about 10 occurrences253–242 Mya — about 15 occurrences242–231 Mya — about 26 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 11 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 5 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 16 occurrences198–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–176 Mya — about 22 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 9 occurrences165–154 Mya — about 10 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 52 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 44 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 75 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 198 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 82 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 128 occurrences88–77 Mya — about 11 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 30 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 69 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 149 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 51 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 166 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 73 occurrences316.9 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

1,938 occurrences of Dictyoptera on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,938 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

226 formations

Ottweiler Stufe — 51.58°N, 11.80°EOttweiler Stufe — 51.64°N, 11.90°EOttweiler Stufe — 50.68°N, 10.86°EOttweiler Stufe — 51.51°N, 11.88°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WJinju — 36.19°N, 128.63°EJinju — 35.16°N, 128.11°EJinju — 35.08°N, 128.05°EJinju — 35.75°N, 128.37°EJinju — 35.87°N, 128.41°EJinju — 35.22°N, 128.15°EJinju — 35.10°N, 128.03°EJinju — 36.25°N, 128.63°EStellarton — 45.58°N, 62.65°WStellarton — 45.56°N, 62.58°WStellarton — 45.55°N, 62.56°WStellarton — 45.55°N, 62.71°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°ECommentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°ECarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 39.97°N, 87.58°WCarbondale — 41.27°N, 88.23°WCarbondale — 40.40°N, 90.80°WCarbondale — 40.05°N, 87.57°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 39.40°N, 108.21°WGreen River — 39.59°N, 108.07°WGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.02°WGreen River — 39.73°N, 107.98°WRandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°ELlewellyn — 41.31°N, 75.81°WLlewellyn — 40.80°N, 80.47°WLlewellyn — 41.36°N, 75.79°WLlewellyn — 41.37°N, 75.74°WLlewellyn — 40.63°N, 76.50°WLlewellyn — 40.60°N, 76.39°WAlykaevskaya — 55.13°N, 86.78°EAlykaevskaya — 55.07°N, 84.72°EAlykaevskaya — 55.60°N, 86.02°EAlykaevskaya — 55.15°N, 85.84°EAlykaevskaya — 55.47°N, 86.01°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WCassville Shales — 39.67°N, 80.06°WAllegheny — 41.79°N, 71.36°WAllegheny — 39.25°N, 79.36°WAllegheny — 39.54°N, 79.09°WAllegheny — 38.62°N, 79.34°WAllegheny — 39.55°N, 79.39°WAllegheny — 39.00°N, 79.00°WAllegheny — 39.68°N, 79.79°WAllegheny — 38.30°N, 82.42°WLawrence Shale — 38.97°N, 95.24°WLos Rastros — 29.88°S, 67.77°WLos Rastros — 29.75°S, 67.56°WLos Rastros — 29.83°S, 67.82°WLos Rastros — 29.08°S, 69.11°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°E

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The named rock units Dictyoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 202 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 723 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoptera and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

7,364 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 837 sites for Dictyoptera, and this reads 240 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

549 references

Each of the 1,938 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. 537 further references are not listed. 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 Dictyoptera

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dictyoptera 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 itHolopandictyoptera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1829