Dunstaniidae

No picture of Dunstaniidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dunstaniidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Permian — about 5 of 18 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 18 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 7 of 18 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic276–273 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences228–225 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences211–208 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266.9 Mya201.4 Mya276 Mya191 Mya

18 occurrences of Dunstaniidae 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

18 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

Blackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EMadygen — 40.00°N, 70.20°EBadaowan — 45.60°N, 84.90°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.83°N, 7.24°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°EEstcourt — 29.80°S, 29.79°EHawkesbury Sandstone — 33.75°S, 151.25°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°E

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The named rock units Dunstaniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dunstaniidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Dunstaniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Dunstaniidae, 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

14 references

Each of the 18 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Dunstaniidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dunstaniidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPalaeontinoidea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1916