Elaterophanes vetustus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElaterophanesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elaterophanes vetustus 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Elaterophanes vetustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elaterophanes vetustus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Elaterophanes vetustus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Coleopteron2 sites
- Orthophlebia liassica2 sites
- Phanerogramma heeri2 sites
- Anepismus vanus1 site
- Anhydrophilus brodiei1 site
- Austaulius furcatus1 site
- Britannicola senilis1 site
- Caloblattina liasina1 site
- Dysmorphoptila liasina1 site
- Elaterophanes acutus1 site
- Holcoptera giebeli1 site
- Holcoptera schlotheimi1 site
- Homopterites anglicus1 site
- Mimelater angulatus1 site
- Necrotaulius1 site
- Orthophlebia anglica1 site
- Pachymeridiidae1 site
- Protomyrmeleon anglicanus1 site
- Stenelytron redtenbacheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elaterophanes vetustus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- British fossil insects1
- Die Insecten und Spinnen der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Insekten und Spinnen1
- Brodie, 18451
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. 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
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No picture of Elaterophanes vetustus 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 Elaterophanes vetustus, 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 itElaterophanes through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brodie 1845)