Eoptychoptera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 18 of 44 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 44 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 10 of 44 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 44 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 13 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences178–175 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–159 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192.9 Mya113.2 Mya203 Mya108 Mya

44 occurrences of Eoptychoptera on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

44 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

16 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.71°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°ESagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKhaya — 62.16°N, 118.60°EBakhar — 45.22°N, 99.17°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.77°ELas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WYangshuzhuang — 35.06°N, 112.48°E

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The named rock units Eoptychoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eoptychoptera and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Eoptychoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Eoptychoptera, 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

20 references

Each of the 44 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. 8 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

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No picture of Eoptychoptera 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 Eoptychoptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eoptychoptera 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 itEoptychopterinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906