Dordrechtia robusta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DordrechtiaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dordrechtia robusta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Molteno Formation · Stormberg Group2
- Molteno Formation1
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The named rock units Dordrechtia robusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dordrechtia robusta and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Dordrechtia robusta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Dicroidium2 sites
- Equisetum2 sites
- Fanerotheca2 sites
- Ginkgoites2 sites
- Gymnospermopsida2 sites
- Heidiphyllum2 sites
- Lepidopteris2 sites
- Muscites2 sites
- Peltaspermum2 sites
- Pteridophyta2 sites
- Pteruchus2 sites
- Sphenobaiera2 sites
- Stachyopitys2 sites
- Taeniopteris2 sites
- Umkomasia2 sites
- Yabeiella2 sites
- Ademosyne reducta1 site
- Afrohagla contorta1 site
- Afrotriassothemis heidiae1 site
- Afrotriassothemis regularis1 site
- Antevsia1 site
- Blattodea1 site
- Clariphyllum sp.1 site
- Dordrechtites sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dordrechtia robusta, 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
3 references- New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa1
- Triassische Insekten aus dem Karoo-Becken im südlichen Afrika1
- A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dordrechtia robusta 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 Dordrechtia robusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dordrechtia robusta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDordrechtia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riek 1976